Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Difficult to discover and pin down as is the full content of his pictures, Arthur Rackham himself still more elusive. His U. S. publishers despair at his abhorrence of publicity. Not since 1909 has his photograph appeared in U.S. public prints. Hardly a soul among his admirers knows that he began life 59 years ago as the son a business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy...
...office the other day and said, Joe, did you ever stop to realize that you are at once the best known and least known man in Cambridge? Is it right that a name that is on every tongue should be a name and nothing more? Must our readers be content with only an occasional glimpse of the real Joe Forecast, with only a hint of the big, human Forecast circulatory system? Won't you let one of our reporters give all this to your public...
...Spirituous iluids, literature of irreligious content, and riding beasts," were among the luxuries denied the early Princetonians. Regulation Number Two of Chapter 15, however, seems to be a prohibition of unnecessary stringency...
...glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight's ultraviolet content. Hitherto, 35% was the highest transmission coefficient of commercial glasses...
...glass used in Birmingham was "Vitaglass," a true glass of high quartz content invented by one F. E. Lamplough, M. A., Cambridge University, made in a factory in Birmingham...