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WHAT DO YOU KNOW?: A Quiz to test your General Knowledge in connection with the equipment and decoration of the ..

... up to a good light, and pass your hand behind it. A dark shadow will show on china, but not on earthenware. 2. Generally speaking, red, yellow and orange are the warm, advancing colours, while blue, green and violet are cool and receding. But these days ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 824 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

Sales technique

... disastrous in the home. Secondly, by understanding something of the principles of marking down used in most shops. Generally speaking, clothing, textile and general stores mark down the past season's fashions to make way for newer styles; and flawed, damaged ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: 53 | Tags: Photographs 

Finishing Polish

... and mat finished modern timbers. The first step to correct polishing is to choose the polish to suit the wood. Generally speaking, dark woods need dark polishes and light woods, light or white ones. If you want an all-purpose polish to suit several different ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 530 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THOSE HURRYING YEARS

... lives this half-century. None guessed on January 1, 1901, that before the 50 years were rounded out one man's voice would speak to the whole world. The century which closed last night was in many respects the most wonderful in the world's history. It ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1308 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Eleventh Hour Tears: A Short Story

... alongside for half-an-hour, for the sake of company, talking of the coming harvest at none of these times did she stir or speak. But he was happy now, for he knew why she was silent. From time to time he made certain that the rug and cushion were in the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3830 | Page: 58 | Tags: Photographs 

Growing Out Of It

... Growing Out Of It GENERALLY speaking, those hack neyed phrases-- He'll be better when he is turned seven, He has outgrown his strength, and He'll lose his pains later, should be relegated to the scrap heap. Terms like these are cloaks for ignorance ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 966 | Page: 69 | Tags: Illustrations 

Queer Jobs In Freak Times

... nerves and blood-vessels, went into her making. In addition, the voice of a Miss Margaret Flannery was fitted, for Lumena speaks when spoken to. Her mate is to cost rather more but will show exactly what happens inside him almost all of the time. Prize ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2848 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

Concerning Pleats

... from width by emphasizing length. Length is vitally important. A full, short skirt on a wide figure is disastrous. Generally speaking, pleated skirts should be slightly longer than the straight pencil ones. MOST materials pleat well if handled by an expert ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 504 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

NOW TO FACE OUR NEXT GREAT TASK

... who turns it up as the filed copy of the newspaper for January 1. 1901. looks to us today. _ To a later generation IA ill speak of hopes baffled, of plans gone wrong, of ludicrous prognostications. Looking down the interminable vista of the centuries ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Masses of men

... Masses of men Intelligence reports speak of tremendous activity in Communist rear areas. Masses of men and materials are moving down the east coast from Wonsan towards Hwachon. seven miles north of the Signs of co-ordinated guerilla activity behind the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

`TELL ALL' DECISION SHOCKS THE 8.8. C

... together for . mety minutes before Lord everidge, Variety chief ichael Standing went outide the room so that his -taff could speak more reely. Other departmental eads did the same. And their absence some of he 8.8.C.'s staff were everely critical of their ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 390 | Page: 1 | Tags: none