Word: arc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propositions are true, a new, non-Euclidian system of space and spatial measurement is built upon them. In this Einsteinian system, no line is absolutely straight; projected, the ends of any line will ultimately meet, forming a circle whose circumference is estimated at 18 quintillions of miles. An arc of this circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose pulls and counter-pulls "warp" space...
...favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...
Arabesque. Norman-Bel Geddes is the unchallenged genius of scenic design in this country. It was he who designed The Miracle. He has, strangely enough, an urge to direct rather than design exclusively. He directed Eva Le Gallienne in a play by Mercedes d'Acosta about "Jehanne" d'Arc in Paris last summer, and set back by a couple of decades the never too robust artistic reputation of America in the eyes of the French...
Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather...
...youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes...