Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rodin, was dated approximately 1876, the latest, a clutch of slim-limbed nudes by French-born Charles Despiau and German-born Gerhard Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing Girl -strained on their pedestals as uncomfortably as an ununderstood remark. Still others were what the man in the street calls screwball art. Only quality this sculpture had in common: individuality. Gallery-goers took a long, long look, wondered...
...Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced development of a device which enables military plane pilots to take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...
Vocational schools were on three shifts and a 24-hour day. Since July, some 600 schools throughout the land had enrolled 215,000 mechanics, had already sent 115,000 of them to work in defense factories. Boomed big, bulb-nosed Dr. John Calvin Wright, Assistant U. S. Commissioner of Vocational Education: "The vocational training program is right on schedule...
...paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
...elusive figure to Knoxville citizens. For months before his crime the press had denounced his influence with judges and police, had tried in vain to get his picture. Then one night a Knoxville Journal photographer, lean, bald Howard Jones, cruised by Ed McNew's office, flashed a bulb, sped away with a snapshot...