Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the U. S. became rich enough to have the power to outbuild Britain on the seas, successive Naval Conferences have seen British statesmen arguing for reduction of the maximum size of capital ships. Until last week, U. S. insistence that the maximum be set high enough to permit capital ships of 35,000 tons has been countered by British proposals to make 25,000 tons tops. Last week His Majesty's Government reversed themselves. With Benito Mussolini now building two 35,000-tonners and with France planning two more, while Germany is about to lay down...
...twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much closer to Earth than at first believed, scarcely 1,000,000 light years away. It was marked now not as a blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter...
...engravings of Albert Durer, the conflicting ideals of mediaeval and renaissance art can be seen to blend. In walking through the Durer exhibition now on view in the Germanic Museum, one feels that he is at the convergence of two ages...
...Venice, and there became interested in the Italian Renaissance. The influence this had on his art is illustrated in "The Dream". An awakened interest in the human form is shown by the central figure of a nude woman, a sharp contrast with the heavily draped figures to be seen in his earlier pictures...
...first, the famous "Knight, Death and Devil", mediaeval characteristics predominate. A knight is seen riding to battle, haunted by a leering Death dangling a symbolic hour glass...