Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This is inserted behind the camera's lens, works something like the binocular vision of human eyes. The illusion of roundness goes onto the film so that no special projector equipment is necessary and spectators do not have to wear stereoscopic glasses...
...Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss was one of the most gifted orchestrators in the history of orchestral music...
Seven months ago Alfred joined the class and began turning out pictures at the rate of three a day. He ran home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views...
...Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...