Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flock of sheep. In his opera Salome, while the heroine gloats, each chop of the knife that severs the head of John the Baptist clunks with horrifying realism from the orchestra pit.. Composer Strauss once boasted that he could put anything into musical terms, even a glass of water...
Every phenomena in which light and glass are involved will be affected by this discovery. Of primary importance will be its practical application in eliminating 90 percent of headlight glare of oncoming cars. However this can be achieved only when Polaroid is in general use for, in order to be effective the wind shield must be polarized as well as the glass in auto headlamps...
...brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...
...ready to re-enact any battle. Then came the flood of propaganda horror pictures, real but limited photographically. The Spanish war's first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were recent photographs taken at Teruel, showing Loyalist soldiers, casual with cold, going through ruined houses in search of snipers...
...sake of knowledge, experimental biologists tweak the nose of Nature by causing plants and animals to produce offspring without proper parentage. Tadpoles have been coaxed out of unfertilized frogs' eggs; live, healthy rabbits have been born after a conception which took place m a_ glass vessel; cell fragments of sea urchin eggs-fragments not even containing the female nucleus-have been fertilized with hypertonic sea water. Reported last week was a new fraud on Nature: the fertilization of holly and other plants with a chemical instead of natural pollen...