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Perhaps the blackest mark on Chen's blue mandarin gown is that his anti-Communist obsession has, in fact, made Communists. So heavy is Chen's hand on all unorthodoxy that many youths who might have taken a middle course choose Communism's extreme instead of Chen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...conventional photography, the light which comes through the lens forms a "latent image" in the silver bromide of the film. A proper chemical "developer" darkens this image by turning its silver bromide into black metallic silver. In the negative, the lightest parts of the scene photographed show up blackest, the dark spots show up lightest. To reverse the negative and get a print, the photofinisher goes through the whole dark-into-light process again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick Birdie | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...distinctive feature of the Grolier Book Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: Circling the Square | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

Terming Republican Joseph Martin's Congressional voting the "blackest record" in recent political history, Martha Sharp, 14th District Democratic candidate opposing Martin for the House of Representatives, told a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union in Phillips Brooks House last night that electing "progressives" this fall is essential for American prosperity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin's Record Called Disgrace By Woman Foe | 9/28/1946 | See Source »

...tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar Ahoy! | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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