Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair" of a "perfidious verdict" in rejecting his oil painting. Indignantly wrote Painter Baldi: "I most frankly state that I have revolutionized the art of painting. . . . The reason to boycott my painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . ." Mr. Baldi's rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath an inset of the Great Lover as he appeared in The Son of the Sheik...
Studebaker's low-priced Champion, Commander and President ($660 to $1,095) have lost almost all exterior fixtures except close-fitting door handles. Trim and neat, the 1940s have new hood locks, optional overdrive...
...Despite its (the Fogg's) brilliant exterior it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. . . . When it comes to relating fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...
...Feild must go, the Fogg will stay though condemned by its students. Despite its brilliant exterior, it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...
...Carnegie apparatus stores static electricity on a big electrode inside an inverted pear-shaped steel tank, 55 ft. high- only the big end of which is visible from the exterior (see cut)-discharges its high voltage in direct current. It does not speed its projectiles to such high energies as are obtainable with the "cyclotron," but the Carnegie and Westinghouse researchers claim an advantage for precision measurements in the fact that their voltage is controlled and steady...