Word: arc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...
...Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social Psychology, had reported that "St. Paul's source of influence may be attributed to epileptic fits, and Joan of Arc's to hysterical attacks...
...trained at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...
...Middle Ages in the midst of Modern Times-arc lamps, newsreel cameras, a radio microphone hanging high above the chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession...
...months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...