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...Yard, what person less venerable than "Copey" might have dared? But he never did, and now . . . Or the Vagabond might reply that he regrets something more desirable even than this: an atmosphere too rare to be reduplicated, an hermitage which was at the same time a focal point for youth and its enthusiasms, something which the Vagabond, though he has known of it too much by hearsay, nevertheless thinks that he understands...
...office, one for his scenic studio. Soviet fathers have not forgotten his design for the Neva bridge, and Joseph Urban was one of the eight foreign architects invited to submit designs for the preat Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. The red plaster model of his project was the focal point of last week's exhibition. It embraced a huge segment-shaped auditorium to seat 25,000 people and allow whole regiments to march across its stage, offices, libraries, and a combined auditorium and theatre to serve the All Union Congress...
TESTIFYING before the Parliamentary Committee of 1857, Edward Ellice said: "Nothing that previously took place in the affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company can at all have reference to what has been the conduct or the management of the Company for the last forty years." This is the focal point about which Mr. Pinkerton builds his book. There is no connection save the name between the original "Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" and the modern institution which has played so important a part in the development of northern and western Canada. For a century...
...Showing the left and right pictures simultaneously or alternately. A person by straining his attention can learn to focus each eye on the proper view. Or, if he sits at a certain focal distance and angle from the screen, he can look through a stereoscope. Or he can hold a mechanical pair of lorgnettes before his eyes. The lorgnettes, which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person...
...view last week at San Francisco's California School of Fine Arts was the latest wall work of Mexico's Diego Rivera, famed, fat and 40. As you look at the tropicolored mural, 45 ft. by 35 ft., your eye is immediately drawn to a focal point - Muralist Diego Rivera's plump posterior squashed comfortably down on a plank. The whole picture epitomizes some of the arts and industries of the U.S. Upon a great scaffolding several artisans are at work besides Diego Rivera, who is painting a huge central figure, symbolical of them all. Rivera holds...