Word: lanterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic lantern slides. But all agreed the incident was historic...
When chubby, 30-year-old Henderson first got together with lantern-jawed Writer Palmer, they planned a short, 100-page pamphlet. But, they explain, "Our civic pride got the best of us. ... So in stead of writing a little, book in a month, our civic pride cost us 15 months." Says Author Henderson privately: "We wrote it in every bar in town except the new ones which have just sprung...
...small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...
...dinner given him annually by the National Press Club went Franklin Roosevelt last week. Last year at this dinner the President was poisoned by bad capon, but this year the food was as excellent as the wine (Lanson 1928). In deference to his philately, a lantern-slide performance was staged to show a new series of stamps commemorating high moments