Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urged that it be joined to the privately owned Canadian Pacific. Gordon, who will take over on Jan. i, is expected to drum home the theme that C.N.R. is a national necessity (e.g., it maintains services vital to national development), and to follow through with changes that will lighten its financial load...
Such dead-earnest studies as Joel Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain...
Long hours with a test tube is the notable setback of concentration in Chemistry, but the Department does attempt to lighten lab requirements for honors candidates. A "B" average will get a student a degree with honors--there are no theses, no generals, and no divisionals...
...Department has made the changes to lighten course and laboratory loads because it believes that industry is putting more emphasis on a broad education and wants students to participate in extra-curricular activities and ethics. Lowering the amount of time concentrators must spend on Chemistry to the exclusion of other activities is also in line with the General Education program, the Department feels...
Masson no longer sketches in pencil on the canvas. "It paralyzes the arrival of light," he says. "I now begin with a dark background and lighten it as my painting begins to live and grow like a pancake. Do you see the light in my painting? Is there not a certain freshness...