Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World-famous, world-visited are the marvelous glass flowers in Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Each year 250,000 people Oh & Ah at the 847 unique and perfect models which a father and son, Bohemians Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, fashioned during half a century. Much has been made of their "secret." Beyond patient observation, incredible sensitiveness of touch and infinite pains, they had none...
Years before, friends had implored him to train a successor, that his brilliant work might be perpetuated. Said he: "If you will find me someone who has generations of artists working in glass behind him, and who will begin work at the age of ten' and work ten hours a day for ten years, then I could begin to teach him." When Rudolph Blaschka died in Germany last week, no such successor had been found...
...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...
Last week, as many a college senior sprawled on campus grass, musing on his graduation next month, the U. S. Office of Education held up a glass through which he might look at his future. It had made (with WPA's help) the first national study of how college men and women fare after graduation.* It got its answers from some 46,000 alumni, vintages 1928 to 1935, of 31 representative institutions including Boston University, New York University, University of Chicago and University of Southern California; State universities such as Vermont's and Illinois'; small institutions such...
...famous glass flower collection, which attracts an average 250,000 visitors, given in the memory of Charles Eliot Ware, of the class of 1834, represents some 840 species of flowering plants, and more than 8500 sections and magnified details...