Word: graphic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art work, whose humans are always drawn in the frontal, wedge-trunk position (as in Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little bumps on their...
...cannot close Walter Millis' relatively short essay without a relieved feeling of satisfaction in our democratic government. "Viewed Without Alarm" is indeed a comfortable interpretation, but by no means is it a lazy one. Its pertinent, graphic ideas contribute a highly essential piece in the jig-saw puzzle of Europe...
...storm. The groundswell first surged effectively 13 months ago, when 2,500 women and men attended a meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 20. 1936). It frothed in July when Dr. Parran published an article on syphilis in Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Almost 2,000,000 reprints have been sold...
When Mr. Roosevelt called tramp money hot money, his felicity of expression deserted him for once, yet at the same time he gave a graphic description of a type of money that is not only hot, but very apt to burn the fingers of American creditors. Tramp money will not stay put; it is a form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from...
...there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square Players, drove an ambulance in Italy in the War, stage-managed in Paris for Jacques Copeau, returned to the U. S. to act in Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published a graphic, scholarly presentation of four Renaissance figures (The Man of the Renaissance, TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Longer (629 pp.), less brilliant, Catherine de' Medici is also more ambitious, seeks to unravel the mazy meshes of one of the most tangled periods in European history...