Word: arc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perfection of a machine which adds Vitamin D to m>lk was announced >by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation last week. The device consists of a large upright cylinder within which glares a12,000-watt battery of carbon arc lamps. The arcs emit ultraviolet light. The light synthesizes Vitamin D in milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good...
...most striking pictures in the show are the two series of designs by Norman-Bel Geddes for "The Divine Comedy" and "Jeanne d'Arc." Both of these designs are built around permanent sets, the lighting being the only means of changing the scene and atmosphere. Neither of the projects were ever used, but are excellent examples of an imaginative treatment of settings for two well known themes...
Veterans, "Many abuses should be eliminated. The nation should not ask for a reduction in allowances to men whose disabilities rise out of War service nor those with substantial service who have become totally disabled from non-war-connected causes and arc without support...
...should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose...
...Langmuir's investigation along this line led him to utilize hydrogen for welding metals together. When hydrogen is squirted through a tungsten arc light, hydrogen molecules explode into hydrogen atoms. The hot stream of atomic hydrogen can weld pieces of steel together and simultaneously drive away the oxygen and nitrogen which weaken ordinary steel welds...