Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work well in the same house, but they help each other. Apparently their methods of procedure are quite different. Mr. Norris is hard-pressed during the period of creation. He fights for the right word. Mrs. Norris, on the other hand, says that the enjoys every moment of putting pencil to paper. At her best Kathleen Norris can present a fine, moving, startlingly real picture of life. At her worst she becomes caught in describing the minutiae of daily routine. A blue pencil would greatly have improved Certain People of Importance. Possibly Mrs. Norris knows this now. She is working...
...Campbell will illustrate his talk with numerous exhibits of pencil work, and will also give an exhibition of rapid sketch work...
...disagreement among psychologists," the speaker stated, "the general opinion is that intelligence is the ability of the individual to adjust himself to new situations. Our present tests stress too much language ability and specific knowledge, and give a large advantage to those accustomed to the use of paper and pencil. We have not yet any means of measuring morals, will, conscientiousness, carefulness, confidence, and other such valuable characteristics. Too much should not be expected of the tests at the present time. It is in fact a wonder that so much has been accomplished in so short a time. Progress...
...Campbell's subject will be "Illustrative and Commercial Art and its Use in Advertising", and he will bring numerous exhibits of pencil work to illustrate his subject as well as give an exhibition of rapid sketch work...
...picture shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...