Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecturer and explorer who had invented a successful undersea camera. The suit is of rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib. An underdress of heavy fleece wool and waterproof canvas is worn inside, the rubber canvas trousers, with pockets, outside. The helmet is cylindrical, has a glass window ⅜ in. thick all the way around, so that the diver has as wide an angle of vision as he can turn his head...
...humble Hotel Lexington, Inc., Hitz is promoting the new Belmont Plaza to a fare-thee-well. First move was to install a slick new cabaret called the Glass Hat which cost over $200,000 and opened last October with Postmaster General James Farley among those present. Ralph Hitz, meanwhile, is in the process of spending $100,000 dolling up the lobby and coffee shop and will soon start redecorating the bedrooms. Last week he put up a new marquee which burns 12,000 watts per hour and virtually eclipses that of the Lexington...
...persons visited Cambridge, and were escorted by undergraduates through almost all the college buildings. Although these undergraduate guides gave interesting, well-informed lectures on the various Houses, the Law School buildings, and the old edifices in the Yard, the most popular tour was always the trip to see the glass flowers in the Peabody Museum. Both the young and the old from all parts of the country had heard of these famous imitation flowers, and usually expressed a desire to see them before anything else...
...only are the glass flowers highly fascinating in themselves because of the extraordinary reality of their appearance, but they have an undeniable fascination because of the veiled mystery that surrounds the formula by which they have been made. People have enjoyed speculating as to whether the process will remain forever unknown, just as much as they have enjoyed seeing the flowers themselves. For this reason, perhaps, the name of Harvard has become inseparably linked with the glass flowers in the minds of many persons who live far away from Cambridge...
...Harvard's famous collection will receive no more additions. Much as this is to be regretted, Harvard should be glad that it has the most famous collection of these flowers in the world, and should the secret process never be passed on to future generations, the value of our glass flowers will be greatly enhanced...