Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous coral reefs, ordered a quick chart. Such a job would ordinarily take at least three days. Army planes from Guadalcanal swarmed over the gulf, hastily shot 1,500 pictures covering nearly 500 sq.mi. In eight and a half hours the pictures were taken, developed, and assembled in a mosaic showing all the reefs. In the battle that night no U.S. ship ran aground...
Chekhov, who cherished the nuance, abhorred the emphatic. His Cherry Orchard is a mosaic of art rather than a straight transcript of life; its emotional overtones are out of all proportion to its literal story. Last week's production had its merits: a fluent translation, good pace, no mistaken striving after Russian "soulfulness." But the indispensable merit of tone it did not have. It failed to make little scenes radiant or heartbreaking; it played for laughs; it turned minor roles into blatant character parts. Chekhov-lovers had seen a more poignant Cherry Orchard years ago, when Eva LeGallienne staged...
...accept as binding only the moral laws of Mosaic legislation and Prophetic teaching. We reject the rabbinical and Mosaic laws which regulate diet, priestly purity, dress and similar laws which originated in ages and under influences of ideas and conditions which today are entirely unsuited, unnecessary and foreign to ... progressive Judaism in modern America...
...sound of bursting explosive. Four bombs had fallen, the first to hit the capital of Catholicism. There were no human casualties. St. Peter's had not been hit, but many of its windows had been shattered. According to a Vatican City broadcast, the famed Studio del Musaico (mosaic workshops) stood unroofed, the Governor's Palace and the old buildings along the Piazza di Santa Marta showed ugly scars...
Viruses. A stride toward identifying the viruses responsible for many ills, from the common cold to infantile paralysis, was reported by the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Max A. Lauffer. His colleague Dr. Wendell M. Stanley had advanced the theory that one virus (tobacco mosaic) was a giant protein molecule which, contrary to the usual behavior of molecules, can reproduce itself within living cells. To prove this theory, Dr. Lauffer used a high-speed whirling machine that works like a cream separator. He whirled a solution of tobacco mosaic protein, to separate the protein molecules from the rest...