Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eats his second meal prepared by German Servite lay friars, who recently have displaced his old Milanese housekeeper, Linda Banfi, only woman in centuries to have lived in the Vatican proper. She is pensioned now. At this meal, which is light, he likes a helping of rice boiled according to the recipe of Milan cooks; and occasionally a cutlet. He percolates his own coffee and drinks it black. While he lunches thus, prelates on their knees read him his correspondence and extracts from Italian and foreign newspapers. After luncheon he goes to his private apartments for a brief...
...waxed indignant, as did Paris when the mistake was made of facing the propeller toward the audience and thereby nearly blasting them into the street, the youthful creator might have derived satisfaction. Had he been dissected with pedagogical thoroughness, he might have emerged a more famed innovator. But this light touch with which Manhattan dismissed, this unsurprised appraisal through a lorgnette, means the kiss of death for the percussion symphony, in the U. S. at least...
Potent Moonlight: Light vibrations given a definite direction are said to be polarized. Sunlight reflected by sea, snow, sky is partially polarized; moonlight is largely polarized. To find the influence of polarized light on living organisms, it was played on yeast, bacteria, sick rats. The growth of yeast, bacteria was stimulated. The sick rats soon died.?Dr. David I. Macht, Johns Hopkins University...
...fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might read "D7B3A6B4C2D8." A fast typer...
...been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr.) was cured of a childhood hip deformity by famed Orthopedist...