Word: pane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...
Artist Nicolas draws and paints on his colored glass as freely as if he were making a mural. Starting with a small preliminary sketch, Nicolas elaborates it into a large cartoon drawn on paper, complete as a blueprint, with the shape and size of each colored pane and its surrounding line of lead carefully indicated. Artist Nicolas writes a number on each to tell his glazier assistants which of 500 shades of colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns...
...flowing lines of his figures by brushing away the pigment and letting the light shine through again. When he is through, the puzzle picture is carefully scrambled again, sent to bake in a kiln until each stroke of pigment left on the glass is melted permanently into the pane. The panes are then reassembled, fixed permanently in place with strips of lead and cement. Joep Nicolas' big, glowing picture is then ready to be set up in its window frame...
...cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful President, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
...gripping the Speaker's dais, the trembling of his hand as he twice tried unsuccessfully to put on his glasses. Before Mr. Roosevelt's arrival at the Capitol, House attendants worried about a leak in the sky light just over the dais. Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with the 20 other American republics in a protest against the German invasions as "unjustifiable...