Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louvre, more and more attentive to Impressionism (TIME, Dec. 3), bought a Pissarro watercolor and a pencil portrait of Pissarro by Paul Cezanne...
...does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be discarded, in order to prevent errors in the counting of votes. All ballots in order to be considered must be signed by the voter and checked in pencil...
Little reception knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...exhibition of pencil drawings and water colors opened yesterday at the Old Fogg Museum under the auspices of the School of Architecture. The sketches, composed chiefly of architectural and landscape subjects in England, France, and Italy, are the work of James Lloyd Berrall '24, M. Arch '27, who was awarded the Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowship last year and who has only recently returned from Europe. The exhibition will close November...
...recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove and witnessed the first, accidental...