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...19th Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
...vote of 14-5, the committee decided that George was all right. Senator Taft and four other Republicans held out, but Administration aids expected the Senate to confirm George without much trouble. In the offing is the chairmanship of RFC-at least, George confided, Harry Truman had made a "thin hint" to that effect...
...chockfull, among other things, of searing X rays from the sun, electron-streams hot out of sunspots, powerful cosmic rays from the depths of space. These are checked by the atmosphere before they smack the earth's surface. Their possible effect on the crew of a comparatively thin-skinned spaceship is something to dampen the enthusiasm even of astronauts...
...than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals of delicate silver lines...
...have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong red of the hall walls, & then cover it with Mr. De Forest's thin arabesque-cut brass sheets. . . . Ask . . . if that can be done"; "Go to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R.R. and see if they will rent me a special sleeping car. . . . Go directly to the President of the Company. . . . Hurry!"; "No provision is made for a wooden barrack for the soldiers who guard...