Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every Belgian art course. Done in oil and brushstroked with a miniaturist's love of detail, the altarpiece (see cut) heralds the trend toward realism and shows in a format only 25⅛-in. tall the donors (left), the Annunciation scene and St. Joseph in his workshop, with mousetrap on the windowsill (right). The artist painted window views of Tournai's streets and shops so minutely that only a magnifying glass reveals their full delight...
America's claim to free-world leadership is not the better mousetrap she has built. Rather, the secure and effective political and economic structure of the country, its high instinctual ideals of political freedom and economic dynamism remain exemplary goals for a world which seeks a leader. In asserting our strength, we can no longer afford to denegrate the accomplishments and efforts of our allies, or our enemies. Vanity must yield to realistic confldence, and condescension must bow to sincere cooperation...
...ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
...good skier looks as far ahead as possible. In my mind's eye, I'm looking even farther ahead than with my eyes. When I'm doing the Streif, I'm already thinking of the steep drop while my skis are still in the 'Mousetrap.' When I'm on the Lärchen-hand, my eyes are on the Oberhausberg, and my mind is on the final schuss...
Walt Disney, who made a mouse enter taining, last week made a mousetrap educational. To illustrate an atomic chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch...