Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the war (he spent several years in a Nazi concentration camp), seemed determined to make up for lost time. Attractive wives and daughters of prisoners often came to him to ask for special treatment of their relatives; the lieutenant, who appreciates feminine charms, usually granted these favors-in return for considerations...
After his return to France in 1945, Léger continued his cyclist series with Les Loisirs ("Leisure"-see cut), which was one of the hits of his Paris show. As stiffly posed as a daguerreotype, the painting echoed Léger's early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like...
...studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him and his young wife to China. A few years later malaria forced them to return, and Dr. Hepburn settled down to 13 years of practice in New York City...
...chemically, and the moths' digestive juices cannot break them down. Moth larvae put on a diet of modified wool quickly starve to death, even though a few nutritious food stains are added. Moncrieff predicts that when all wool is modified in this way, clothes moths will have to return to their primitive diet...
...With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...