Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lautrec, whom he admired enormously, "but all the same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile of his own drawings to keep warm...
While doing antisubmarine research for the Navy, Jenkins and Bowen examined seawater under an ultraviolet microscope. Every cubic inch, they discovered, contained about 1,500,000 submicroscopic particles 1/50,000th of an inch in diameter. These particles reflect violet, blue and green light rays back to the surface, where they combine to give ocean water its characteristic color. When water looks green, it contains larger particles (silt or small living creatures) which reflect other kinds of light...
...respectfully suggest that, in organizing his lecture, the professor should give full weight to this consideration. Having done so, he might further reflect that minds warm up in the morning even more slowly than fingers. A reasonable solution might be to mount the platform at about...
What Union Means. ". . . But if the petty sectarianism voiced by the minority statement should prevail, it would reflect upon the whole record of the Episcopal Church during the past 36 years. What Episcopalians mean by church union, and have all along meant, would be taken to be nothing less than virtual absorption of all other Christians into the Episcopal Church...
Soon, he believed, a new type of man would dwell in Wessex-a man so naturally wounded and disillusioned that from the day of his birth his face would reflect not the zest for life of previous centuries, but only a morose determination somehow to survive. Beauty would become an unbearable irony. "Men," said Hardy shrewdly, "have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged...