Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store fronts are now familiar, not for the Victorian corsets or the old top hats, but for Atget's treatment of glass and reflection, which is strikingly modern, indeed almost surrealistic. His photographs were in fact first published in a Surrealistic magazine in 1926. The study of a tree stump will also strike many as similar to the contemporary Edward Weston's Point Lobos series. Both in the problems he proposed and in his direct approach to them, Atget was at once a pioneer and a master. This is a rare opportunity to examine the work of the imagier...
Kefauver, whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...
Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically transmitted muscle power was not the best solution, Professor Siegmund Weil and Technician Otto Häfner of Heidelberg University set out to develop a light, small and more efficient substitute. This week, after seven years of research, they were busy teaching amputees how to use their invention: an artificial arm operated by pressurized...
...vora has apparently failed to capture much working-class support, despite 1) his promise to impose profit sharing on employers and 2) campaign help from one of Brazil's most gifted demagogues, São Paulo Governor Janio Quadros, who took a leave of absence to stump for Távora...
...Walter Reed's Prosthetics Research Laboratory (started from scratch in 1945) is one of the world's most famed designers of artificial limbs. From pioneering in cineplasty (placing hooks in stump muscles to work limbs, so that artificial arms can now be lifted over the head), it has gone on to plastic materials that look like human skin. The "gloves" on its artificial hands now bear fingerprints which must be registered with the FBI. Latest gimmick: putting a human-type pigment in the plastic, so that the hands, instead of turning green, retain their color even under fluorescent...