Word: 1850s
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...come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while history might be made at night, photographs almost never were. Flash...
...Yesterday, Alice was an 1850s play," they croon. "Now it has gone...
Trumbull Professor of American History Donald Fleming said Gienapp was well regarded for his analysis of changes in voting behavior which led to the genesis of the Republican party in the 1850s. Fleming added that the scholarly technique Gienapp had developed could be applicable to "other great political transitions...
Zeta Psi also had a chapter at Harvard from the 1850s until the 1880s, Walton says. Zeta Psi attempted a comeback in 1985, but after successfully pledging a group of undergraduates, the organization failed to add to its ranks. This time, the group has not asked for sanction from the administration because of hostility three years ago, says Walton...
...whose followers believed she represented the second coming of Christ. Remember Mary Baker Eddy, severely injured by a fall on the ice, who became cured while reading a passage in St. Matthew and thereafter taught the unreality of all physical ills. Spiritualism was the rage of the 1850s, and a heroine of Henry James' The Bostonians went into mesmeric trances to gather recruits for the cause of feminism. Walt Whitman believed in transmigration of the soul -- "And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,/ (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before...