Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved...
...built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes of the person who may stand before the photocell which...
...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...