Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumbull returned from Europe-and the Officer shows a treatment of lighting on forehead and hair which distinctly imitates a style of English Portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, who was showing in London at the time; 3) typical Trumbull traits in the Officer are straight-line highlights on buttons, the peculiar method of coloring the rectangular collar of the uniform...
...damage done to the deceptively lifelike reproductions can never be repaired, for with the death of Rudolph Blaschka in 1936 passed the secret of their creation. Leopold Blaschka, founder of the remarkable process, allowed no one but his son to enter their Dresden workshop and never permitted his method to be put on paper...
Showing also that the public opinion poll is useful now in our wartime economy, Allport commented that the Office of the Civilian Requirements of the War Production Board uses that method to determine the public need for scarce commodities...
Stahl believes that a team's method of play should be moulded according to the material available. He personally favors a shifting man-to-man defense and likes a fast breaking attack centering around the pivot man, provided he has a tall enough, strong enough center pivot...
...friends philosophized on the virtues of poverty, Johnson flew into a Tory rage. When someone suggested that poor criminals were better off in not having to suffer the ignominy of public executions, he flared up on the other side: "No, sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it." He had no patience with music: "It gives me no ideas, Sir, and prevents me thinking about my own." "Pray, who is Bach, a piper?" In his last years he became...