Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more paint than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...
When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons. Some of the neutrons are needed to split more U-235 atoms and keep the reaction going. Others are absorbed by impurities or escape from the pile. The rest enter the atoms of U-238, ultimately turn them into plutonium...
More than 200 Milwaukee merchants had launched a cooperative drive, sparked by the "Milwaukee Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers," a Roman Catholic group which has already plastered city buses and streetcars with 1,200 posters bearing its slogan: Put Christ Back Into Christmas. Starting Dec. 11, some 275 taxicabs will display pictures of the Nativity. Hotel and theater marquees will carry the slogan, as will 160 billboards, automobile stickers and daily radio and TV announcements...
...Igor Stravinsky's 40-year-old score blazed as never before: Stravinsky himself had cut down the instrumentation from the original no pieces to 55, given the score new warmth, color and compactness. Choreographer George Balanchine had scrapped Fokine's original Russian-folk-dancy choreography completely, put his more Oriental Bird and Prince on more acrobatic tiptoe...
...friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular cello) and worked out the full orchestration...