Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annapolis' State House. To take the place of the Army cadets, denied transportation from West Point, half the Annapolis student body was delegated to cheer for the Army. With fingers crossed, they fulfilled their assignment for a while. But when the midshipmen began to tear the Army apart, they showed their true colors...
...unnatural because the camera has only one eye and cannot register distance, depth, or solid shape. The third dimension can be added only by double vision, each eye having a slightly different angle on the scene. Such photographs have long been made by double cameras with lenses as far apart as are human eyes. But the production of motion pictures in three dimensions has lagged...
Exaggeration is also possible. For aerial mapping a high-flying plane may shoot the same terrain from points a hundred feet or more apart, giving a rangefinder effect as if seen by some fantastic bird whose eyes are that distance apart. When such pictures are viewed by human eyes, less than three inches apart, the effect is one of foreshortening-as if seen from a height of a few hundred feet. Thus reconnaissance has a superb new tool...
Later Jimmy demanded and got more modern equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths...
...supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are ready to fall apart. Snafu is when the yellow-fever vaccine gives everybody jaundice; when the planes cannot fly because spare parts ordered four months ago never show up; when headquarters orders red crosses painted on the hospital just after it has been meticulously camouflaged. Snafu is when a Seattle regiment is shipped...