Word: haling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright, a hale and hearty 65, is not only the dean of California painters, but one of the few U.S. painters likely to get at least footnote mention in the history of modern European painting. He is also a man given to confounding the experts. The art critics pronounced him through at 30; his doctors, unable to diagnose a mysterious illness, gave up his case as hopeless at 47. Both critics and doctors were wrong. A major retrospective show of 83 of his oils, at Los Angeles County Museum last week, clearly showed that Macdonald-Wright is very...
...that year, the Republicans had a gala public meeting in Boston, with reserved seats in Tremont Temple. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided over a collection of notables which included Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root...
...more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...
...plate. Much the same result can be accomplished by amplifying dim light instead of gathering more of it. Dr. Albert G. Wilson, director of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., believes that a 40-in. telescope equipped with a Lumicon will equal a 240-in. telescope in luminescence. The 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, the world's biggest, can be made to equal a 1,200-incher...
...Wendell Holmes, one of the honored guests, read a poem patterned after "The One-Horse Shay," and entitled "How the Old Horse Won the Bet.' This poem was not one of Holmes' masterpieces, but the board felt it was certainly worth publishing and sent their best material-monger, Everett Hale, around to see Holmes the next morning...