Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next ten years as Glackens. With much observation his versatile eye became intensely selective. As late as 1912 he painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence in his work. Many artists have come a cropper under that influence. Glackens succeeded...
Harlow Favors Lighter Pads...
Coach Dick placed himself on record as favoring lighter equipment for players. "We are moving in a vicious circle of harder and harder pads," he declared...
...Hopkins wrote a letter denying that he ever said, as reported by Timesman Arthur Krock and others: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" (TIME, Nov. 21). Timesman Krock replied: "Among those who heard it is a most reputable citizen of New York and, in lighter hours, a playmate of Mr. Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that it was said seriously, I should not have reprinted the remark. I am sorry Mr. Hopkins is embarrassed by the publication...
...California Institute of Technology a clever, conscientious young physicist named Carl David Anderson found anomalies in cosmic-ray behavior which convinced him that, in the upper air particles were being created which were lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such...