Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Leverhulme (wealthy manufacturer of Sunlight Soap) offered the Isle of Lewis to its inhabitants as a gift. He bought it in 1918 in the hope of " industrializing " the inhabitants, paid $700,000 for it. The inhabitants refused to coöperate with Lord Leverhulme, and, after spending several million dollars on improvements, he decided to give the place away...
...According to the Pasteur Institute, one hour's sunlight is sufficient to kill any known species of microbe.† Weight 170 to 200 tons each...
Sorolla was an accomplished portrait painter, but his special eminence comes from his handling of sunlight and water in combination. His figure pieces at the seashore are full of flowing line, quivering color, spacious luminosity. Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging...
...healthier growth when musicianship is generally recognized as a sensible and well paying profession, and pupils go to study with the feeling that they are making their way to a secure living rather than with toplofty visions of artistic transcendence and starvation. The organists, while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there...
...When the coal and oil fields are exhausted, the final substitute will be neither water power nor radium energy, but wind and sunlight. Surplus power will be generated by the formation and storage of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The latter is, weight for weight, the most efficient known method of storing energy. It will be universally cheap, decentralizing industry, and producing no dirt...