Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affable, heavyset man of 41, Murch paints covers for FORTUNE and occasional portraits for friends, but his heart is in his still lifes. He once had a daytime studio, "but I did no work in it. There seemed to be a lot of light . . ." Nowadays he works only at night, in a small room of the Riverside Drive apartment he shares with his wife and five-year...
...Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...
Were college presidents really so concerned about money? In the light of increased costs and (for private colleges) sagging endowment income, they could scarcely think of much else. At the last session of the conference they turned to their biggest worry of all: whether or not to ask for federal aid. They decided in favor of asking-by endorsing a system of federal scholarships for college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything...
Three of the four basic values, says Gamow, have already been discovered. They are: 1) the speed of light (the highest possible velocity); 2) Planck's Constant (the smallest possible value of mechanical action); 3) Boltzmann's Constant (having to do with the kinetic energy of gases...
From the time he saw his first light bulb, he wanted to be an electrical engineer. He sped through a four-year course at Carnegie Tech in three years, and at 18 went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corp., at 18? an hour. By the time he was 22, he had married (on $80 a month) and had designed Westinghouse's first motor for auto starters...