Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of maps demonstrates clearly how all maps are made. Color plates, "overlay" plates used for printing in black on color maps, and the methods of giving the effect of a relief map are all shown...
...making most of his maps Harrison spreads an ordinary map out on a huge globe, photographs it, and uses the resulting picture as the basis of the finished product in order to get the proper spherical effect...
...Resident Commissioner about the difficulties of rounding up blackamoors for the Army. Says the R. C. : "I am doing my best. . . . Do you see that lanky nigger? He tried to get away. He is just about to be hanged." The captain: "It is interesting to watch the effect on the eyes, don't you think? See how they roll. The foam at the mouth is rather amusing, too." The scene changes and a "Lord Fisher" says to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "We are very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally...
...sees in Spain on the eve of Civil War, in Vienna after Anschluss, in Paris as an exile, it is actually a series of very moderately intelligent travel and political notes, held together by stock characters, decorated by eroticisms, seasoned with high-school cynicism, anger, iconoclastic irony. Net effect: like a drugstore translation of the Decameron by Weber & Fields...
...various House exhibits which have been held at spasmodic intervals during the past few years. Next week, however, the college will witness the first student art exhibit ever to be seen in any of the Houses. This exhibit, which will be found in the Winthrop Common Room, is, in effect, the public inauguration of an informal movement based upon a common interest in painting on the part of a small group of students, some of whom have attained more than an adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their medium. John Cumming, a Junior, studied for a while under...