Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thesis is that modernist painting, about which both laity and the profession rage, is not painting at all. It is " the art of color " and has developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent...
...Delmar Leighton '19 has been given general supervisory authority over all rowing exclusive of the University squad. This position does not carry with it any coaching duties, but is intended to form a medium through which any of the more intricate problems of organization and co-operation between the various departments of the crew system can be adjusted. The problem of the organization of rowing at the University, which has proved to be so complicated in seasons past, is still more so this year, and it is in full realization of this fact that the present scheme has been...
...Stephen Gosson, the architect who designed the sets. The costumer, one William Israel, is but a step behind him. Between them, with the help of a good director and a few thousand broadswords, they have constructed a thing of permanent beauty. Gothic architecture is, in the main, their medium; their background, the flashing pageantry of 16th Century France. So painstaking is their detail, so accurate their reproduction, so beautiful their finished product, that the French Chamber of Deputies has requested a copy of the film for the historical archives of the Carnavalet Museum, Paris...
...current by induction. This power operates three cab signals to the engineer, but at the same time turns on the air-brakes if the train is too near another, is exceeding proper speed or approaching an open switch. The signals are for full speed ahead with two " blocks" clear, medium speed with one block clear, and stop when within 1,800 feet of a train or switch. Whether the engineer fails to do his part or not, he cannot run his train into danger. Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would...
...42nd year, as the Dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini is largely a miniature Napoleon, whose gestures he loves to imitate. Of medium height and pale complexion, with lustreless eyes, he controls the Italian ship of state, firmly convinced that his Fascisti are the saviours of his country. In affairs of state Mussolini exhibits remarkable self-control, rare judgment and an efficient application of his ideas to the solving of existing problems...