Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangement of ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family took part in the land rush...
...little Lockheed is no longer little: its plant covers twelve acres instead of two, it employs 6,800 men and it turns out between 30 and 40 ships a month, for airlines, corporations, individuals and governments (including Britain, which has ordered 250 Lockheed light bombers). As striking news as any was Lockheed's backlog of unfilled orders: $26,372,385. Fortnight ago this was upped another $4,845,000 by an Army order...
...Anatomist Edward Allen Edwards of Harvard and Physicist Seibert Quimby Duntley of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, these theories were only skin-deep. Instead of the naked eye they used a spectrophotometer, a photoelectric device which analyzes skin color by measuring its capacity to reflect light at each separate wave length of the spectrum. Painstakingly they analyzed the entire skin surface of three white men, three white women, a Japanese, a Hindu, a Negro and a mulatto. Last week in one of the most thorough analyses of skin color ever published, Drs. Edwards and Duntley announced: 1) two pigments hitherto unknown...
...transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled. Gradually Fred Snite improved. Most of the time he stays in the big tank, but for five or six hours a day he can get along with a light, chest-sized inhalator which he wears sitting propped up in bed. From month to month the period during which he can breathe by himself has been extended (record to date: one hour and three minutes) but during these periods, as a precaution, he wears the small inhalator with the motor shut...
...King Edward VII's (then Prince of Wales) personal bravos. And all the time, without bothering to get them copyrighted, he wrote songs (some 700), many of them today either unpublished or unidentified. The best of them (Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, In the Morning by the Bright Light, In the Evening by the Moonlight, etc.) stood high in the list of bestsellers. Today's music connoisseurs are beginning to call Bland "the Negro Stephen Foster," to rate him after Foster as the second greatest U. S. writer of Southern songs. During his lifetime, Minstrel Bland called himself, more...