Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organizer of the show and author of the catalog, which was hailed last week as one of the most concise histories of photography available in English, was the Museum's librarian, Beaumont Newhall. With prints as well as actual pieces of equipment he has been able to show practically every milestone in the history of photography. Of particular interest is an 18th Century camera obscura, a box with a simple lens at one end, a ground glass screen at the other which showed an inverted image of any brightly lighted object at which it was pointed, was widely used...
...recklessness, organizing Fascist locals and presently leading Blackshirts to storm and capture the then-Socialist stronghold of Ravenna. At the time of the decisive March on Rome in 1922 he was only 26 but already a Fascist Militia General, one of the historic Quadrumvirs who entered Rome in the actual March, directed by Editor Mussolini by telegraph from the office of Popolo d'ltalia which is still the Dictator's family newspaper. Queerest thing about the entire coup was that, like Hitler's in 1933, it was "perfectly legal," with popular votes and delegated representatives of the people supporting...
Founder of Bachelor was no bachelor but an intense, earnest lady of Circleville, Ohio. Publisher Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side...
Last year 40 books were permanently lost from the Reading Room as compared with the average annual loss of 350 before the turnstile went in. The problem of book control is particularly difficult in Widener because of the large numbers allowed free access to the actual shelves. Pointing out that fully 1000 persons have entry to the stack, Briggs stated that no other library in the world of comparable size has such a free system...
...actual measurement Adams House is closer to University Hall than any of the other Houses; but the statement that all Dunster men find it necessary to purchase bicycles is a myth. The physical isolation has always proved an advantage in the minds of most Dunster men, and by measurements other than actual, it has been established that Dunster is usually closer to Boston, Wellesley, Northampton, Poughkeepsie, the Crimson, Lampoon, and other centers of generally more interesting activity than University Hall...