Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prints, drawings, watercolours, and oils exhibited at the Germanic Museum, one can see clearly the richness of the imagination of this artist and his enormous creative facility. The brilliant pigment is broadly handled and fluid in the manner of the impressionists but with a depth of vision never attained by them...
...down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon. On the lower levels, various elements of back ground drawn in relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks to be photographed. After that it is taken to the Technicolor plant for processing, and made ready for final re lease...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...
...nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life of theLL-9 came when the Second, or chief executive, relayed the Captain's order to dive: "Take her down." When she headed for the bottom there was always a strong chance that she might not level off at the right depth, and "a submarine but momentarily out of control may sink in a few seconds to a depth where she crushes under the pressure...
Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...