Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only are the glass flowers highly fascinating in themselves because of the extraordinary reality of their appearance, but they have an undeniable fascination because of the veiled mystery that surrounds the formula by which they have been made. People have enjoyed speculating as to whether the process will remain forever unknown, just as much as they have enjoyed seeing the flowers themselves. For this reason, perhaps, the name of Harvard has become inseparably linked with the glass flowers in the minds of many persons who live far away from Cambridge...
...Leopold Blaschka has finished his life's work because of failing eyesight, Harvard's famous collection will receive no more additions. Much as this is to be regretted, Harvard should be glad that it has the most famous collection of these flowers in the world, and should the secret process never be passed on to future generations, the value of our glass flowers will be greatly enhanced...
...process of applying the axe in pro-season sessions, he has had little chance to concentrate on building a coordinated unit for the Tech game. Only Friday he made the last slash in the roster...
...Process a Secret...
...elder Blaschka in 1895, Rudolph alone has completed the collection of some 720 models of flowering plants, and over 3,000 sections and magnified details. The last shipment, consisting of 15 fruit models, arrived in September, 1936. Since he employed no assistants, and has kept secret the process by which he and his father spun the delicately colored models, there is no successor to Rudolph Blaschka in sight...