Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation of Eve (see cut), magnificent engravings for the Book of Job and for The Divine Comedy...
Exempt from duty: . . . Original paintings in oil, mineral, water, or other colors, pastels, original drawings and sketches in pen, ink, pencil or water colors...
...when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...
...waiter, whose patient pencil had been long poised, could not smooth over this atrocity. Generations of Copley breeding fell from him; he staggered back as if the aunt had bitten him in the nose and blurted out violently...
...Vizetelly, 74, most famed U. S. lexicographer, for 24 years editor of Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary; of pneumonia and pleurisy; in Manhattan. British-born, Dr. Vizetelly became a battler for U. S. colloquialisms ("cootie," "boloney," "chiseler," "it's me," "go slow," "pretty good," "loan me a pencil," "can I go"). In 1925 he proposed that the English alphabet be enlarged from 26 to 62 letters to provide one symbol for each sound, a plan which, it was estimated, would necessitate re-spelling of most of the 550,000 words in the language...