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Light is usually associated with heat. All solids begin to glow at 525° C. But many other agencies besides heat can produce light-rubbing, fracture, pounding, excitation by electricity or short-wave radiation, etc. Surgeon's tape emits a greenish glow when stripped from a roll. Lumps of sugar luminesce when rubbed together. Quartz pebbles shine when struck by a hammer...
...earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, molluscs, squid, marine worms, hydroids, siphonophores, sea pens, cteno-phores, corallines, myriapods, balanoglos-sids, ascidians, fish. There are also two kinds of luminous plants-certain bacteria and fungi. These are responsible for the dim shining of damp wood and stale meat, the ghastly glow occasionally seen on human corpses...
...German sculptors was a bushy-headed, Hitler-mustached Jew named Benno Elkan. For his portrait busts, a who's who of pre-Hitler Germany, he was paid as much as $5,000 a commission. A master of monumental stonecutting, who could make his granite flow like molten lava, glow like human flesh, Elkan was picked by the Government to carve its biggest monuments to Germany's World War I dead. Art-loving Germans trooped for miles to view the massive, grief-weighted, maternal figures he set up in the public squares of Frankfurt, Saarbrucken and Wickrath along...
...uncertain affections, his age, his gradual loss of power ("They were planned so big and red; yetthey are small irons, and they hardly glow") he tells no less serenely. "I have followed the septuagenarian of literature step by step, and reported the progress of his disintegration." He ends his book with a quiet, magnificent diatribe which should make most readers duck, most smug old men-of-letters blush...
Thus the Senate last week upped the House bill to a full billion dollars. The economy promises of Republicans & Democrats alike melted in the warm Christmassy glow of giving presents to the farmers. Only real economy champions: Virginia's Byrd, Ohio's Taft...