Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such X-ray mutations have formerly been of interest chiefly to geneticists (TIME, April 14), but the two unusual calendulas caught the eye of David Burpee, astute Philadelphia seedsman, who two years ago introduced a tetra-marigold produced with colchicine, a chromosome-multiplying chemical. Seven years of reselection (with no further irradiation) assured the permanency of the new strains, readied them this year for Burpee's market...
...Roseville Methodist Church in Newark, N.J. Mrs. Amelia Carr was a constant ray of sunshine. Almost daily her liveried chauffeur took her to visit the sick in the parish. She was a generous contributor to charity. When her 71-year-old husband took ill, she prayed at his bedside, devotedly nursed him back to health...
Also shown in the display are examples of ornamental design in graphic art, a collection of silver by English eighteenth century silversmiths, early Islamic illuminations and paintings, in Krubbings of Cambodian relief sculptures, and a series of X-ray shadow-graphs, as a means of identifying painters' styles...
...method of revealing the true identity of an artist's work, X-ray shadow-graphs have proved, the Fogg exhibition reveals, that four paintings previously accredited to the artist Gorgione are not his. By imagining how to hold a brush, following the strokes in the shadowgraph print, a student can reproduce the size, shape, speed and direction of the artist's brush-stroke, an excellent means of study...
Dame Myra Hess, Duo-Pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Manhattan's Ray Lev are among Uncle Tobs's famed virtuosos. To plain people, the chief point of the elaborately philosophical Matthay principle (Matthayites hate the word method) is: no dry, mechanical finger drilling. Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely...