Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foot-candle: The illumination provided by a standard candle on a surface one foot away. Intensity of light in the sun on a bright day is about 10,000 foot-candles, in the shade...
...contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes to Kay, is a series of states which man can see only in succession, but which really exist simultaneously. Therefore, man should accept life as a whole, as a composition of light & shade...
...contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
...scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...
...billions, then hit a peak of $4,700.000,000 in fiscal 1936 (year of the Soldiers' Bonus), dropped to $2,707,000,000 in fiscal 1937. Relatively small though the new figure for fiscal 1938 appears, it will be the eighth consecutive deficit-with government revenues only a shade short of the alltime high ($6,695,000,000 in booming 1920 when Wartime taxes were still in effect...