Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Junior College Long Beach, Calif...
...forthright, plainspoken, sharp-eyed teacher who preferred playing the cello to painting, warned his students that he could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would...
...seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...
...Long Island, arb colonies are few and far between. At crowded, middle-class Long Beach, the work of the late, great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing...
From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...