Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued to paint his own way. He went to Italy and drenched himself in Renaissance art; another winter he spent living in a peasant's house on Elba, and worked directly from nature. When his money ran out, he went to Casablanca, signed up as a paint spray-gun operator, working side by side with Moroccan laborers at U.S. air bases. Back in Paris with money in his pocket, he found himself elected chairman of a group of fellow Left-Bank expatriates who staged their own exhibition when French sponsors backed out (TIME...
...medical section of your magazine carries a brief report of my research on the preservation of whole blood by freezing . . . The story is ... misleading. We do not spray liquid nitrogen on the blood but vice versa. The transfusion was not a complete success since over 6% of the cells were destroyed in the processing and another 6% left the circulation in the first six hours after transfusion. Storage is only theoretically indefinite at temperatures too low to be practical. Storage at higher temperatures is being studied, but results are not yet available. My associate, Mr. [Emanuel] Kafig shared equally...
...Sonic Wind whipped down the track, shot forward by 70,200 lbs. of thrust. Trailing a 35-ft. tail of fire, it roared out from under the speeding observer plane. After 1.8 seconds, the rockets sputtered out. Metal scoops below the sled plowed into the dammed-up water. Spray exploded into a brief fountain as the Sonic Wind slammed to a stop...
...palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with 25,000 pearl-like shells, a Versailles Room for private banquets, where a fountain can be made to spray champagne instead of water...
Campbell strapped on his light-blue life jacket and wedged himself into the Bluebird's cockpit. The 4,000-h.p. turbojet whined into life. Once he was lined up on his marker buoy. Campbell widened out on his foot throttle. Spray arched from her stern as the Bluebird rose on her floats and shot toward the end of the lake five miles away. Her jet roar thundered through the nearby hills. Seconds later, Campbell was ready to refuel for the run back...