Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon. Earth's shadow did not turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery...
...painter starts with a piece of canvas and literally builds his picture on it. Kantor builds with virtuosity, his favorite brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...
Containing such widely diversified subjects as a tragedy by Euripides and a modern social drama, an interesting and unusual display of color drawings and sketches by the brilliant young American designer, Robert Redington Sharpe, is now on exhibition in the basement of Widener Library. These pictures, being shown to the public for the first time, are a portion of the collection given the University last August By Hugh Henry Sharpe, H, a nephew of the late artist...
Bach: Nine Chorale Preludes (Carl Weinrich. organist: Musicraft: 10 sides). On the 18th-Century-facsimile organ at Princeton's Westminster Choir School, Organist Weinrich revives Bach's Lutheran embroidery in all its original sparkle, clarity and color. One of the month's most notable...
Fiberglas will not yet make dresses; they would be too heavy. But since it is non-inflammable and can take color (asbestos cannot), it is well suited for curtains, rugs, hangings. For house insulation it is lighter than rock wool. For air conditioning it makes a fibrous filter which scours air of dirt and moisture. For wire insulation it is more compact, sometimes more economical than cotton, which must be made non-inflammable or used with rubber...