Word: asas
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...film carries an ISO rating of 1,000, which means that it is 2½ times as sensitive to light as any other color print film now on the market. (ISO is a new international film-speed measuring standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more expensive, print films with 400 ratings...
...James Thurber. "What company to be in!" said Baker. TIME'S Washington Bureau then dispatched Photographer Roddey Mims to Baker's home town of Huntsville, Tenn., to help set up the shooting. Armed with tripod and timer, the Senator went through twelve rolls of Kodak Ektachrome ASA-64 film in his 2¼-by-2¼ Hasselblad, while Mims backed him up with Kodachrome in his Nikon motordrive. As the shooting proceeded, Baker began to relax. "This is the most fun I have had in two months," he told Mims. In the end, Robert Grossman's airbrushed...
...marched to the front desk, insisting on seeing the hotel manager. When the manager did not appear, the sociologist kept standing in the lobby in his swimming trunks until a crowd had gathered. Someone called the St. Louis Human Rights Commission; somebody else notified the American Sociological Association (ASA). The local and national press appeared. Then ASA, which had about 1500 members at the hotel for the convention, threatened to pull out and persuaded a national psychologists' convention to threaten cancellation if hotel management did not immediately open the pool to all guests. As a result, the pool was opened...
Cambridge has produced a number of famous scientists--Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray to name two--but perhaps none so concerned with human welfare as Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. Working in an office-lab, he laid the ground for the cure to smallpox...
...same year that Cambridgeport became an offical port of entry and trade, Professor Asa Gray of Harvard developed the nation's first botanical garden. There is some confusion over the date, however, because some believe it did not actually "open" until...