Word: tiniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Visitors lingered longest before one of the tiniest works on view, the Winter Landscape by Rembrandt (see cut at full-size). Rembrandt broke with the polished limning of his day to create a graphic shorthand of his own, which amounted to putting space in parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems...
...Political? Mental? Epidemic?). 5) May I consider that during the course of the past twelve months none among you has drunk alcoholic liquor to excess? Oui? Non?" In case some might think him anti-American, Daninos explained: "I am nothing but a damned individualist who would not seek the tiniest louse on the head of the United States if they would not try to find one on mine...
Among the many living things that make men ill, the most baffling are the tiniest-the viruses. Drugs seldom do any good. The best defense is the immunity that comes after a mild attack; hence one of the big drives in medicine is the search for mild attackers, i.e., vaccines...
...What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in a creator, divine, supernatural. I cannot accept chaos...
...nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member had his own assigned wheel which he had studied thoroughly. The management routine of shuffling wheels apparently failed because the gamblers knew the wheels so well they could identify them by the tiniest mar or scratch, the faintest off-shade of color in the varnish...