Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treat Baldwin Johnson told of studies in the causes of cell growth being made at Yale. Two discoveries have so far come of this research: that in living matter the only substances sensitive to light are sugars?fats, oils and proteins are all unaffected by it; that one of the symptoms of tuberculosis is the appearance in the body of a certain fatty acid?a discovery which should enable the disease to be detected in its very early stages...
Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...
...time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...Lighting for the photography was obtained by the use of seven of the huge floodlights, which are used on the Soldiers Field Stadium to light the field. Each of these lights requires two 1000-watts bulbs...