Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother Ted & Mrs. Ted were quartered in the Lincoln bedroom on the second floor of the White House. Tight-lipped and camera-shy, he combats all publicity linking him with his brother. He even refused to be photographed with the President. His contention is that he is a "private citizen" deserving no public attention. Smaller than Brother Herbert, Brother Ted is short and stocky, with features and expressions about the eyes and mouth that resemble the President's. He, too, made money as a mining engineer, retired to Palo Alto to teach. Bronchitis kept him from the inaugural...
Specifically he was shooting helium atoms (alpha particles derived from radio active thorium) from a shuttered, camera-like box into a tube containing nitrogen and water vapor. The helium atoms traveling at a clip of 11,000 mi. per sec. smashed into the nitrogen atoms. The force of the impact caused the atoms to merge for an instant to form fluorine which immediately broke down, with explosive force, into hydrogen and oxygen...
...famous. Cynical commentators have suggested that Rin Tin Tin probably "owes everything to the little wife." He lives in a wire training camp adjacent to the fine house in Beverly Hills that has been built out of his earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between his jaws with an appearance of ferocity. Despite his unfailing skill at apprehending the villain on the screen, Rin Tin Tin, asleep a few feet away, offered no resistance when robbers...
George Eastman, camera man, announced that he would give more than 500,000 gold-tinted box cameras away next month to any U. S. or Canadian child whose twelfth birthday comes in 1930. The occasion: to celebrate "Fiftieth Anniversary of Kodak...
...Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: A bout from one Jack McAuliffe, thirteenth set-up of his current tour, in Denver, by a knockout in the first round...