Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interned by the Nazis, Expatriate O'Brady taught herself to draw by doing pencil portraits of other inmates. After her release, she began exhibiting neat, sweet Paris street scenes, garnished with wandering nudes and airplanes decked in flowers. In a Paris jaded with more sophisticated art, her simplicity hit the spot. Wrote one critic: "The only great painter of the New World" (TIME...
...TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser is to a pencil...
...However, an impartial observer has stated. "I have concluded that as far as the public relations department is concerned, it did not cencor faculty members by blue pencil, veiled threats, or any other means...
...knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section men who pencil marginal comments in hour exams, should be extended to finals...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...