Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other major jamming method, "Window", involves the seemingly simple procedure of dropping huge quantities of light aluminum foil from planes on bombing missions. It was discovered the small strips of aluminum, which is an excellent radio reflector, would, if cut to one half a radar's wavelength, send back a disproportionately strong echo...
...November Magazine of Art, Major Gilbert Highet, a former Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford, and on military leave from Columbia University, thinks he has found the groom. Using the tried-&-true detective method of eliminating suspects, he tracks his man all around the table...
Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...
...thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making up all faces of the same type. For these things, Perc became...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...