Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monet began to go from his lovely and unprofitable beginnings to a fanatical and highly lucrative exploration of impressionism's end: the picturing of daylight, like a spangled web swathed about the world. With worldly success he lost the almost Flemish reticence that gives The Seine at Bougival halt its charm. Long before his death in 1926, the old man's gilded haystacks and mauve cathedrals became dated. But among the rich and often raw liqueurs of modern painting, his best work is still as refreshing as a long glass of sodawater, iced...
Concludes the Jenner report: "The Soviet organization [has] continuously engaged in a plan to penetrate our educational institutions at every possible point . . . The Communist agents who spun the very real web of conspiracy and intrigue [in] U.S. Government departments, in almost all cases, were cradled in our distinguished universities and colleges . . . Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit...
...until the middle of the 19th century that builders fully understood and applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect...
Died. Newcomb Carlton, 84, longtime (1914-43) president and chairman of the board of Western Union; in White Plains, N.Y. Originator of the Night Letter to keep Western Union's wires humming full time, Carlton led the company's expansion from its far-strung web of Morse keys to a giant network of modern telegraphic printers. He scoffed at "stuffed shirts" in business, made a point of never lecturing his messenger boys on the rewards of hard work. Rather: "It's the breaks. Success depends upon which side of the street you were walking...
...Japanese have worked hard at democracy, and the web, Author Gibney believes, has been sharply strained. But he is not at all sure that it will soon be torn apart. Communism in Japan is a flop, but the overriding factor in Japan's position today is its proximity and vulnerability to Communist military power. What comfort the Japanese can feel comes from U.S. friendship. It is here that Five Gentlemen becomes an important as well as an illuminating study. Gibney came to like and respect the Japanese. His book explains why the five gentlemen and their 85 million countrymen...