Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses themselves it was found that around the round tops of some of the windows the wood has pulled away from the brick, and has there by necessitated a complete recaulking with plastic filler around the sashes at the top in order to prevent water and wind from coming in through the cracks...
...Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity; she comes to us most directly through the portrait of Picasso and the dominating clay of Jo Davidson...
Fine Arts 1c, like other Fine Arts courses, is wholly factual. It consists entirely in memorizing slides and lecture notes. As the catalogue announces, it treats plastic art from the beginnings in Mesopotamia to the end of Ancient Times at the beginning of the Dark Ages. With Fine Arts 1d in the second half, it is the Harvard Course of concentrated culture for Casual Sophomores...
...scars do develop, volunteered Dr. Howard Leighton Updegraff of Hollywood, plastic surgeons can do what they are doing for Doris Johnson's hand. For head disfigurements it is now possible to remake eyebrows and lashes with snips of scalp. linings of the eyelids with mucous membrane from the mouth, and to remodel noses, lips and ears with skin grafts. Burned faces, said Dr. Updegraff, are more common now than in Wartime...
...skull. Dr. Ney cuts out the special section of bone, replaces the bone with a thick celluloid which the du Pouts make for him. The celluloid plate lowers the dome of the skull, prevents brain attachments, consequently prevents brain stretching. The operation is a plastic one. The scalp grows over the celluloid skull insert, which does not fracture, gives perfect brain protection. One of Dr. Ney's patients went diving, hit a block with his patched head, suffered no consequences...