Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fascinating to many visitors, however, were the spare, delicate, geometrical results of Bauhaus workshop experiments in wood, metals, textiles, glass and color. Few could stand alone as impressive works of art, but the best proof of Bauhaus importance lay in the field to which all its experiments were, in theory, preliminaries: architecture and industrial design. Examples: tubular and wood furniture, frosted glass and metal lamps, pottery and other useful goods made in the '20s, which no U. S. manufacturers yet surpass; advanced photography done by or under the direction of Bauhaus Instructor Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy; the second Bauhaus building...
...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...
...Senator O'Mahoney's apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...
...most important question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...
Albert Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison; he was also "the father of American ethnology" and originator of the world's first systematic plan of profit-sharing, introduced in his Pennsylvania glass works in 1794. His idea was so simple in theory that it became a catchword of capitalism but it is so complex in practice that few companies have tried it. Last week a Senate committee started to find out why this is so and what, if anything, should be done about it. At least it should provide a neat display of benign capitalism...