Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different lengths of tail. Healing and regeneration of tissue sometimes blur such labels, however, and laboratory assistants sometimes make mistakes in the code pattern...
...known. The Museum is now devising a method for making copies of them, as a record for students and an inspiration to artists, and the workshop has been conducting experiments on three different lines in the hope of reproducing not only their color but the surface texture and the pattern of the tiny cubes that compose the mosaic...
...Fogg workshop are two painted panels which reproduce the mosaic portrait of the emperor Constantinus Monomachos. These are the first two experiments. In the first the actual pattern of the cubes was transferred from a full six photographic print to a prepared panel of gesso. The form of each cube was then laboriously incised into the gesso and painted in tempera. The second experiment was made directly on a photostat. The form of each cube in this case was raised with gesso, somewhat in the manner of the raised letters in a medieval manuscript, and them painted with glue tempera...
...Brno, site of the Czechoslovakian Arms Manufacturing Co. plant where the gun was perfected. * A trim, compact gun, it can be operated by one man and fired from the shoulder, on a bipod or tripod. It is ten pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after a period of rapid firing, the other can be slipped in place in 20 seconds. With two men behind it, one feeding, the Bren can fire about 600 rounds a minute...
...news for the world, Mr. Young, in a highly readable and interesting style, goes on to reveal the workings of the international game during the past decade. By an amazing ability to eliminate the non-essentials, the author connects all the high spots of recent years in a coherent pattern, at the same time passing judgment on many fallacies and legends that have grown up. The result is that the politics of the world seem to be a relatively simple matter, perhaps too simple...