Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past. This past is not quite 100 years old. for it was in August 1839 that the Frenchman, Louis Daguerre, first publicly described his discovery. In the U. S. the first daguerreotypes were sometimes called "sun pictures," and in a few years the clarity of U. S. sunlight was being declared the reason for the superiority of Yankee photographers. Published this week is the first attempt at a full history of these men, their methods, their successors up to 1890, and the sunlit instants preserved by them from life now vanished in America...
...because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
...Garden City of the Future" with terraced walls exposed to a maximum of air and sunlight is shown in an exhibit in Robinson Hall here. The work is accomplished by Marcel Breuer, young European modernist, who has just completed his first year as research associate in the Graduate School of Design...
Main approach to the problem of utilization of solar energy has been study of green plants, which in their own simple and mysterious way utilize the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. Chief agent in this process of photosynthesis is chlorophyll, the green coloring-matter in leaves, which acts as a catalyst, speeding up the transformation, but undergoing no conversion itself. Since chlorophyll is not effective as a catalyst when extracted from the plant, chemists have been unable to study its action. It is composed of two separate pigments, blue-green chlorophyll A and yellow...
...years ago, when Congress Cigar Co.'s Son & Heir Bill Paley became CBS's 27-year-old president, it was a puny network. Although irreverent young employes stealthily called him Pale Billy (purely a trick of transposition, for he likes hot countries, bright sunlight, is usually healthily bronzed), in three months he tightened CBS's contracts with its affiliates, gathered 22 more stations into his network, refused to sell CBS to Paramount Publix Corp. for $1,500,000. Nine months later he sold Paramount Publix a half interest for $5,000,000, within three years bought...