Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Marin. Proudly grey-haired Painter Henry R. MacGinnis had his photograph taken in front of his commonplace Silver Kimono with his model, Jane Erwin, and Governor Hoffman. There were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march of art and time. To tell the truth, it's hard to get steamed up enough...
From a crude shelter in the middle of a cornfield near Delphos, Ohio, one evening last fortnight a 36-year-old amateur astronomer scrutinized the northern sky through his 6-in. telescope. Ten degrees from the North Star he spotted an unfamiliar object, below naked-eye visibility. At that location his charts showed no star, no nebula. Amateur Astronomer Leslie C. Peltier watched the tiny blob of light for five hours. In that time it moved sufficiently far to betray itself as a comet. To Harvard Observatory, whose officials knew his name very well, Peltier sent a telegram...
...certificate and a cash prize. Someone once asked Astronomer Peltier why he did not join the staff of a big observatory. He replied that 1) he was satisfied to remain a freelance; 2) he had not been invited. The fact is that amateurs render valuable service by "sweeping the sky," a game for which professionals have no time. The professional usually has his research program mapped out for months ahead of time. He is thus not likely to come across any unexpected phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered Nova Herculis, the spectacular...
...employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...
...ceiling is the sky...