Word: patterns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line...
...move away and see how these fine distinctions disappear in the solidity and rotundity of the head marked boldly by only the most conspicuous and characteristic forms of the features. Notice too the great mass of the body to which the delicate sheen of the velvet folds and the pattern of the brocaded sleeves are entirely subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson...
...Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however, have seen so penetratingly beneath the surface of the contemporary scene, as Mr. Mumford has done in this book, or woven the multifold threads of the country's history into a more harmonious pattern...
...points out, are most uniform indeed in their criticism and in their theories of aesthetics. "Is not the craze of standardization revealed in this very attitude? These intelligentsia have their own conception of what constitutes culture, and they are dissatisfied because all Americans are not standardized on that particular pattern...
...rather caustic. Though not a West Virginian, I am familiar with the state and with the comparative virtues of its neighbor states. . . . Living only 50 miles from the Ohio River, Mr. Zweiger has manifestly never been up to Huntington, W. Va., a city after which Chillicothe might well pattern her ways. Being myself a native of Virginia, the original mother of these states, it grieves me to see much unwarranted mudslinging. . . J.H. HUFFARD Bluefield...