Word: screening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviator has a vast number of varying air currents to contend with, and he must therefore be acquainted with relative velocities and varying conditions of winds. To illustrate these conditions Professor Rotch showed charts on the screen of wind velocity and pressure at low and high altitudes. The pressure and velocity increase rapidly as the altitude increases. Charts were also shown of the prevalent winds. West winds are prevalent at high altitudes and in the winter. North of the equator the trade winds are northeasterly and south of the equator they are southeasterly. If the aviator or balloonist followed...
...curtain rose on a setting of essentially nothing but two side pieces and a circular dropped curtain of dark green, bent into a half circle somewhat after the fashion that the apparatus of screen advocated by Mr. Craig might be. At the left stood a study chair and a desk of some period difficult to conjecture; in the chair sat the "Wise Man" philosophizing aloud, and near him, on a pedestal, an hour glass. The "Wise Man" was a teacher and he philosophized in language that betokened him an atheist. A "Fool" enters. He admits he is a fool...
...opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate of Freiberg Cathedral, in such a manner as to form...
...Gothic Hall consists of the square space beneath the tower, resembling the crossing of a church, and a choir separated from the crossing by the rood-screen of Naumburg Cathedral, so that this important monument of the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic sculpture will have the same relative place in our building which the original has at Naumburg. The other Naumburg sculptures, the twelve remarkable portrait statues of princely founders, will be placed in the choir, also in accordance with their original positions. The further development of Gothic sculpture down to the 15th...
...Shields, author, hunter, explorer, and president of the League of American Sportsmen, gave an illustrated lecture last evening in the Union on "Snow Slides in the Canadian Rockies." The views thrown on the screen were unusually excellent, especially those of the snow-capped peaks and glaciers of British Columbia. The illustrations of moose, elk, and caribou in their native haunts added much to an interesting discussion of the present state of game preservation on the North American continent...