Word: arc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulb itself has four terminals, two for the filament, and is filled with neon gas and metallic sodium. When the current is switched on, an arc light springs from the filament, takes on a red glow from the neon gas, then a yellow glow from the evaporation of the filament. The bulb consumes 80 watts of electricity, but because it produces so much more light than the ordinary lamp of that wattage, its sponsors claim that it is not only more efficient but, once installed, is more economical. Chief problems have been that sodium attacks ordinary glass and that...
...roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being despised." A post-mortem showed that his heart had grown so great that it had displaced one of his ribs. Of Joan of Arc, Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus...
With an estimated 50,000 Chinese and 10,000 Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...
...Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them; one gains no very precise picture of any one, or of the whole; one is befuddled...