Word: cores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw what he saw he discarded detail, the etcher's common resource. He used mass and shadow as a sculptor uses them, giving what is so hard to give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital...
...carvings were wrecked, there remained enough to show that they belonged to the same period as the great caves at Lung Men and Tatung Fu. The cave was important for two reasons; first, because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central core pillar, and the Jataka tales sculptured on the walls, features unique, it is believed, in the sculpture of the period; and secondly, because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
Within the flaming personality of Mussolini is a cold nucleus, an icy core of reason and discretion. Last week, however, as he continued in triumphal style through Italian Tripoli (TIME, April 19), that warm and colorful land seemed to quicken in him a mood of expansive wellbeing. His utterances mellowed from veiled imperial threats toward the colonies of other nations into a hymn in praise of Tripoli...
...condemnation for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, and his subsequent rehabilitation created an international scandal almost without precedent between 1904 and 1906. Anti-Semitism was the basis of the incredibly unjust treatment which Dreyfus received, but the trial stirred animosities which penetrated to the very core of French politics...
...neighbors (by this theory). Each of these ten stimulates a neighboring ten, and so on by geometrical proportion, until the influence of the original stimulus fades away. Such stimuli are normally brought to these cells in the grey cortex (bark) by the nerve fibres. These form the white core of the brain. (Naturally there are blood vessels and a variety of other cells in the brain as elsewhere in the human economy...