Word: jour
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They number 39 in all, including Renoir's famed, gentle Les Parapluies, and the small (17½ in. by 29 in.), amiable boating scene Jour d'Eté (Summer Day) by Berthe Morisot. A will drawn in 1913 by Sir Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil...
Next day, when the news broke, all Ireland chuckled, and the usually sober-sided Irish Times ran a happy cartoon showing a trench-coated figure carrying a parcel with words, "It's the Jour d'Eté, and it's hot." An outfit called the Irish National Students Council boasted that two of its members had taken the picture. The night before, two young Irishmen got up on the roof of the Tate Gallery, but police had spotted them and set dogs on them. So next day the young vandals simply walked in, took down the picture...
...Several laboratories are working on the problem of finding a Type I strain of virus that will produce immunity, but with less danger of accidentally causing paralysis than the Mahoney strain now used in the Salk vaccine, reported Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele in the A.M A Jour-ml. Researchers at Philadelphia Children's Hospital meanwhile disclosed first details of their method for making a preparation that is virtually pure polio virus (TIME June 20). They use a zinc salt to precipitate the virus, then a centrifuge to separate it from unwanted kidney tissue and chemicals. They concentrate...
...driver to government official, knows exactly what has appeared in the magazine, has most decided views on it and no hesitation at all about passing them on to me. Israelis are extremely sensitive about what appears in the foreign press. This applies more to TIME than perhaps any other jour nal, not only because they themselves see it but because they know it is widely read in the U.S. - and in the Arab states as well. So, I often feel that I am writing with a whole nation peering over my shoulder...
...Russian Habit Old Russian Habit Sir: Long before ace reporters were ever born to cover the Geneva Conference, William Shakespeare knew the Russian tactics and types of talk bandied by them (Love's Labour's Lost): We jour, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour, And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord, They did not bless us with one happy word...