Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is indeed the art of a great age. Large in scale, sombre in color, powerful in restrained emotion, it fits the themes of ancient legend...
...epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
...Suits passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...
...with Bryn Mawr College and the Archeological Institute of America. It was under the direction of Dr. Hetty Goldman, the Museum's Excavator in Greek Lands. Another expedition is now in the field in India, Ceylon, and Afghanistan, under Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. His purpose is to photograph in color and to publish the outstanding wall paintings in the cave chapels, an original undertaking whose results will be eagerly awaited by all Orientalists...
...northern shrimps are tender and delicious when cooked., and, at least to this prejudiced writer, quite as good as lobsters if not actually better. They average from five to eight inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken...