Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOURNEYMAN portraitists did a Bustling business in the days of the young republic. The U.S. was popping with pride and prosperity, and its citizens demanded painted proof of how handsome, rich and grand they found themselves. Portraitist John Neagle (1796-1865) was one of scores who helped fill the demand. But his efforts gained him more goods than glory, and he would long since have have been forgotten except for one extraordinary picture. Perhaps the first commissioned portrait of a workingman, the painting (opposite) is on view this Labor Day week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Actually...
...Hallo, Mary!" Publication of Shaw's iconoclastic parable, The Black Girl in Search of God, temporarily broke the friendship between the nun and the old man, though he insisted to her that it was directly inspired by God and wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think...
...today, however, the Americans had no concrete proof of their accomplishment, as the cup persisted in remaining among the missing...
...forced to withdraw from Japan and Okinawa. Said Admiral Arthur W. Radford, who first suggested the Cubi base in 1948 and was on hand to dedicate it: "What we do is directed against no nation and no peoples-only against aggression." Replied President Ramon Magsaysay: "Cubi is one more proof that...
...cosmic rays. They can also be made artificially by high-energy gamma rays from radioactive elements. Positrons do not last long; as soon as one of them hits a normal electron, both particles are annihilated, turning back into the energy out of which they were made. But the proof that positrons exist was a victory for believers in nature's symmetry. Better still was the fact when a positron is created, it always appears in a "pair" with an ordinary negative electron...