Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of as know Dr. Chaffee by sight (or by the poster of the Quiz Kids) and have heard-Irim speak to us upon our arrival. However, few realize what a prominent scientist and busy executive he is. All the C E's are familiar (or fervently wish they were) with his text on the Theory of Thermionic Tube. He is to only Director of Cruft Laboratory and its teaching staff but holds the combined honor of being Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering...
...parrot to say "Mejoral es mejor" over the air, all the parrots got mike fright.) Mejoral religious calendars (which devout Latin Americans love-see cut), joke books, pamphlets on how to love, how to read a horoscope, how to recognize an airplane, flooded the Hemisphere; 150 sound, movie and poster trucks stormed its hinterland...
...Inefficient transportation, idle factories, high taxes, famine. Material conditions and morale of the people went down each year. "The Government propaganda authorities had to withdraw the posters showing Franco in a heroic pose, with arms crossed over his chest. ... To stand with arms folded is the symbol of unemployment in Spain, and too many disillusioned Spaniards had scrawled over the poster...
...writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort to a song by the disease, Yvette Guilbert...
...TRUE ATTITUDE OF BIOLOGISTS TOWARD LABORATORY ANIMALS IS EPITOMIZED IN A POSTER WHICH I ONCE SAW IN THE PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL SCHOOL. IT WAS A DRAWING OF A RABBIT BENEATH WHICH WERE THE WORDS: GENTLY, STRANGER; GENTLY, PRAY...