Word: width
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the stroke lacks solidity and uniform width as well as being unbalanced, it would indicate an inexperienced artist...
...falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury, Sask.) missed it completely because of clouds, but scores of other astronomers' parties (the Russians alone had 22) got good observations...
...width, a shining peace, under the night...
Four thousand miles of all-but-harborless coast and the width of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal shut off the Indian subcontinent from the western desert world of Semites and the eastern twilight world of Annamese, Cambodians and Malays. Along the north, the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas, walled off India from the mass of Asia...
...trained (class of 1920) son of an artist, "Reggie" Marsh studied painting at Manhattan's Art Students League, made his reputation in the late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration...