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...silver emulsion film cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...
...recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
...guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...
Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...
...unlikely that John Daniel Hertz remembers going to Chicago at the age of five; long journeys, to children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo his school books for $2, took up residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back...