Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apartment, nicknamed "The Lamasery," and decorated like a bad dream. Here, for two years, she picked the brains and reference libraries of her more scholarly associates to write her 1,200-page Isis Unveiled, which she claimed was dictated to her by the Masters of Wisdom via astral light and spirit guides. In 1878, Madame, the Colonel and two followers set out for mysterious India to search out "secret doctrines...
When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
...pink and purple Bathers was among Renoir's first postgraduate masterpieces. It took hundreds of preparatory drawings and three years of painting to finish, but with The Bathers Renoir got around to combining his new-found "living and restless" line and the vibrant, light-filled color which impressionism had given...
...sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...
...keep sending out whistle blasts pitched so high that nobody could hear them; but if a signal box ahead had its danger arm up, a reflector would send back the sound waves to the locomotive. There a microphone would detect the supersonic racket, a bell would ring (or a light flash), and the engineer would throttle down to his foggy-foggy...