Word: labels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congratulations on your fine color reproduction of Benjamin West's portrait of Guy Johnson. On what authority does TIME label the Indian in the background Joseph Brant? There is no resemblance between this and the portrait of Brant by Romney, painted in the same year, or those by Gilbert Stuart, painted later. It is more likely that the Indian is merely a symbol of Guy Johnson's office, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in succession to his uncle and father-in-law, Sir William Johnson...
...Urquhart, then a young zoologist on the museum's staff, began trying to label Monarch butterflies to find out how far they fly. He soon ran into tagging trouble. A label that sticks firmly to a Monarch's wing is apt to make it aerodynamically unstable...
Insect Aerodynamics. During World War II, Dr. Urquhart worked for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and familiarity with airplanes gave him new ideas. He figured that small paper labels attached to the leading edges of the butterflies' wings close to the body instead of on the surfaces would not interfere as much with their flyability. Little by little Dr. Urquhart learned to make the labels stick by cutting small holes in the wing, folding the label over the hole and gluing the paper to itself rather than to the almost adhesive-proof wing. In 1950 and 1951 he tagged...
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (Verve LP). After 22 years of making records for Decca-plus a few before even Decca latched onto him-Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to. sound...
...Charles Dickens' magazine, All the Year Round, and though it followed Dickens' own Tale of Two Cities, it boosted circulation above even the Dickens level. Serialized in the U.S. by Harper's Magazine at the same time, it was still in print under the Harper label 70 years later...