Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With suppressed glee the office of the Traffic Research Bureau at 29 Holyoke street announced yesterday that a grand total of six students had answered the call for volunteers for a glare-blindness test. They didn't expect...
...student who has special difficulty in night driving due to the glaring lights of approaching autos is offered the chance to be cured of his trouble by the Bureau for Street Traffic Research. The Bureau, under the direction of Harry R. DeSilvia '22, is experimenting with the problems of glare blindness...
Doing research on the possibility of assisting persons to recover from glare blindness, Dr. DeSilva wishes to test for glare sensitivity, night blindness, and look for any signs of ocular disease. Should it prove desirable, the Bureau will prescribe a treatment for the student and determine its effectiveness...
...brownish-gray walls of broad weave and the walnut background of the show cases bring out the delicate colorings of the Chinese pottery which are in most museums lost in the glare of a white-walled room. This is well illustrated in the Korean Room where there is much pottery from 5th and 13th century tombs. The vases and bowls have a unique inlay which the Chinese were never able to achieve. This inlay gives them an extra richness when it is seen with the faint blues and greens of the ordinary glazed ware. This extra richness and beautiful coloring...
...becomes a nova, starting from the first or second magnitude, it will be brilliantly visible in broad daylight. And imaginative persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, carbon, nitrogen, and many another terrestrial element have been identified by comparing the solar spectrum with very clear spectra of substances photographed in the laboratory...