Word: panels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed to begin painting on silk...
...three hours, near dusk, a radio officer at the airport hears that the Akron is about to return. The lounging ground crew springs into action. A large cloth panel with the figures "63" is spread on the ground, tells Commander Rosen dahl the ground temperature. Another panel, striped, is spread several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard...
...upper left panel contains a row of gas-collectors atop a smelter. Below are a sculptor (Ralph Stackpole) and his assistants at work. Below these are machinists. In the upper right panel, an airplane flies above a group of toiling sleelworkers. Below is an architect's drafting room. Directly below Rivera's self-portrait, talking over the work in progress, stands a group of three. Buttonholed between Timothy Pflueger and Arthur Brown Jr. (architects) is the donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting...
...member of the Hobby Club): Shakespeare. He owns four early folios, including the fabulous first, picked up at Quaritch's in Piccadilly. In the library of his office (in his company's new building on the site of Madison Square Garden) a secret spring opens a secret panel revealing a miniature picture of Shakespeare meditating...
Bell Laboratories developed the panel dialing system, first installed it extensively in 1919. The Bell telephone companies (16 million telephones) also use a step-by-step system, through certain patent agreements with Automatic Electric Inc. By other reciprocal patent agreements, other manufacturers are enabled to make variants of the basic dialing systems, offering their wares to independent telephone companies (four million instruments...