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Word: pictograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others, like Adolph Gottlieb, Alexander Calder and Seattle's Mark Tobey included recognizable chunks of nature, like pieces of mosaic, in the careful wreckage of their pictures. Usually (as in Gottlieb's Pictograph), the symbols seemed more important than the paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Straight Lines & Curves | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...smaller globes of the earth measured in terms of travel time over the past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Globes on Parade | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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