Word: rod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bois whose fame dates back to pre-War I days when he, Davies, Bellows, Luks, Henri were putting modern U. S. painting on the map. Another member is young, happy-go-lucky Galed Gesner (usually willing to let a picture go for the price of a good fishing rod), who last year got an average of $51 a picture but this year is getting up to $350 because somehow his pictures sell. But the larger part of the colony consists of such artists as Walt Killam, Kenneth Bates, Beatrice Cuming and lighthouse-keeper Frank Jo. Raymond, whose best work ranges...
Young Mr. Smith (he will get his M. D. next year) conceived the idea of slipping the severed ends of a blood vessel over a slender rod from opposite directions and sewing them where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break...
...machinist for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. is a wiry, hawk-nosed little man (5 ft. 4 in.), with dark blue eyes, greasy, dexterous hands, a fourth-grade education, six grown children, a passion for hunting rabbits with bow & arrow, and some "gold needles," which are divining-rod-like devices for locating gold...
Reviewing the history of U. S. efforts at internationalism, Historian Beard does not spare the rod. Neither foreign trade nor foreign lending, he observes, has been a dazzling success for the U. S.; U. S. internationalism has not availed to prevent war. But he insists that whenever the issue has been put to them directly...
...large hand grenade their way. Yesterday in page-large ads all over the country, RCA Victor announced a new policy of making classical records for one dollar (12 inch Black Label) and seventy-five cents (ten inch Black Label). This is about fifty per cent lower than the present Rod Seal classical prices...