Word: papering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...children, shaped by their previous educational experience, found it difficult to respond to a teacher who desired respects a person, not as an authority figure. Often, one's class did not operate as a group but rather as eight, somewhat boistrous, separate individuals who seemed more interested in throwing paper air-planes out the window than in accomplishing something in the classroom. Gaining control over the class occupied time and energy that otherwise might have been used to motivate creative class...
...basic approach is a tantalizing simplicity-a column of polished steel, a square sheet of blank paper with a single word such as "Sky" lettered on it, a wooden booth with a small plaque in it labeled "Suicide." Each is intended to convey or stimulate some arcane, fey or fiendish compulsion or conceit...
Japanese printmakers eliminated the insignificant partly as a matter of economic necessity. The making of a hanga was a laborious process. First, the artist brushed his design onto mulberry paper. Then the drawing was glued to a cherry-wood block. Next, two engravers incised the design upon the block. Several black-and-white prints were made from it, and these were then glued to other blocks that were incised in turn so that each could be used to print a single color. In the early 18th century, print-makers were largely limited to various vegetable-based inks...
...chasing editors are convinced it all pays off. Mainichi's newsmen still gloat about a photo they got of the Rising Sun replacing the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima last summer, even though the ceremony marking the return of Japanese sovereignty ended just 15 minutes before the paper's evening deadline. As the ceremony ended, a Beechcraft took off from Iwo Jima, 775 miles south of Tokyo, and negatives were processed aboard. Another plane sped toward Iwo, received the photos by radio when the planes were 250 miles apart, then turned toward Hachijo Jima, 175 miles south...
...undergraduate here, he served briefly as president of the CRIMSON in 1942 (a year when the paper had three presidents). He graduated magna cum laude in the now-defunct field of mechanical engineering, and went off to join the Air Force...