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...years ago Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute built a sensational bridge between the living and the nonliving by crystallizing the virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease. Crystallization is a property of nonliving matter but when the virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself-a characteristic of life. The virus is a giant molecule weighing 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. Dr. Stanley found the molecule to be spherical, with a diameter of .0000002 cm. When Dr. Langmuir made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred...
Last year Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute weakened this theory by crystallizing the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco and tomato plants. So far as scientists know, living matter never crystallizes. Thus...
...public. Following the lead of Cezanne, Gaugin, Picasso, and Matisse, his paintings have a hazy quality which make them difficult to understand at first glance. With a little study, however, the colors come out with a vibrancy which is usually found only in stained glass windows or a mosaic...
...read, the letters they wrote, their changing opinions as they and the times changed. He has paraphrased their own writings in building up his pictures of them, so that the book is not "original" in the usual sense of the term so much as it is a beautifully-conceived mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay...
Assisted by three of his seven red-headed sons, red-bearded Lawrence Saint made the Hildrup windows, like all his stained glass, in traditional medieval fashion, from the "cartoon" or original drawing through the firing and blowing of the glass to assembling a mosaic of 2,850 variously colored pieces in the two 10-ft. windows. The clear, simple details were added later with a needle-fine brush. In his big, cluttered studio and furnace, a converted barn at Huntingdon Valley near Bryn Athyn, Pa., Artist Saint has 1,500 color formulas based on chemical analysis of glass going back...