Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...they thought of stock prices as unrelated quotations on individual issues, often the result of manipulation. Charles H. Dow, a small, precise man, first editor of The Wall Street Journal, had a different idea; he had been keeping averages of railroad and industrial stock prices since 1897, had found beneath individual fluctuations a trend of the market as a whole...
Professor John Spinachseed of the Whiskey Straits Paleontological Society has just sent word of a discovery which will revolutionize the world of science more than somewhat. Burled beneath some heavy, coarse-grained Potsdam holystone beds, lie has uncovered a peculiar organ, perfectly preserved. It is a circular piece of fossilized bone with a hole in the middle which resembles a large lifesaver the kind you eat. Although his colleagues have not yet confirmed his suspicion, spinachseed is certain that the fossil is that of the left nostril of a metamorphic ape. He has already named the ape Spinachanthropus in honor...
...Beneath the Biological laboratories lies Harvard's bit of Hollywood. Here a group of rooms with a curious assortment of movie equipment houses the Harvard Film Service. Founded after the four-year-old University Film Foundation, an organization separate from Harvard, folded, the Service moved into its present location...
...free ride up. For several years controversy has raged between Government engineers, who said the system would work, and Oregon's $10,000,000 salmon industry, which faced ruin if it failed. This spring Bonneville's fish ladders were put to work. Above white "flash-boards" set beneath the shallow exits of the ladders, Government agents poised themselves to count the salmon that swam past in the annual spring...