Word: violet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measuring wave lengths, one angstrom - 100-millionth of a centimeter. Visible light ranges between 3,900 A. (violet...
...romance-minded commentators of the i gth century found the lady less cheerful than beguiling. Theophile Gautier wrote that her "sinuous, serpentine mouth, turned up at the corners, in the violet shadows, mocks you with so much gentleness, grace and superiority, that you feel suddenly intimidated, like a schoolboy before a duchess...
...most remarkable piece of research done in making the microscope was the was the objective lens designed by David S. Gray '40, Gray's problem was to design a high-powered lens that would be simultaneously transparent to both ultra-violet and normal light without re-focussing. Mathematical calculations alone took the young scientist, who is regarded as among the five or so top lens designers in the world, over a year...
Performance of the machine has shown its possibilities to be almost limitless. It extends the range of man's color vision down one whole octave into the shorter wave length to a region never seen before. This is done by making use of the ultra-violet light emitted by living tissues when photographed under the extremely short wavelengths of ultraviolet light...
...delegates are: R. Wallace Brown 1P.A., Stewart G. Bryant 2G.S.D., Robert E. Burns 1G, Robert H. Dix 1G, David R. Gardner 1P.A., Abdul R. A. Al-Habeeb 1G, Marvin W. Herrick 1G.Ed., and Violet Kugris 1G.Ed...