Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They did, and this time agreed that the bone-&-weapon association was authentic. The weapons were judged to be 15,000 or more years...
...dean but a debutante is Sculptor Dorothy Simmons, who last week had her first U. S. showing at a group exhibit in Manhattan's Bonestell Gallery. She is a tall, blonde, serious young Englishwoman who wants sculpture in every home, fears that most of it is fit only for museums and memorials. Lately, to fill the gap, she has done small, lively pieces in wood, each part carved separately and then fitted together. These she hopes to have copied in multiple, sold cheaply...
...When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell's Bells...
...soft iron wire into steel in one minute. The wire is heated in a hydrogen atmosphere to prevent oxidation. The hydrogen, bubbling through alcohol, picks up alcohol vapor. This vapor contains carbon, which inter acts with the hot iron to make it steel. The Westinghouse people devised this exhibit to show the new importance of controlled atmospheres in hardening commercial steel parts...
Last week, in Philadelphia, Publisher John D. Keith of the Gettysburg Star & Sentinel (successor to the Adams Sentinel) turned the old press over to the Franklin Institute for a permanent exhibit. It was probably the oldest U. S.-made printing press in existence. After gathering dust for some 60 years, it still worked well enough to run off souvenir copies of the Institute's program, for Printer M. J. Smith (see cut), who had operated the same press when...