Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disordered universe was not the cosmologist's all-embracing universe but the Large Magellanic Cloud, nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. With a microphotometer, a special camera and an able staff, he found in the Cloud more than 500 new variable stars and enough star clusters in its neighborhood to make its diameter seem 20,000 light years, double the previous estimate. His present objective is to locate, by measuring the amount of cosmic material in different directions and at different distances, the centre of the all-embracing universe - if such a centre exists...
...this work. For, however much its editors have sought to make it an historical document, this photographic panorama of the United States since 1860 must, through its very character, remain an effort dedicated to the artful stimulation of nostalgia. Perhaps that virus, bolstered as it is by the camera and by Mr. Allen's informal chatter, will prove itself not yet exhausted by the thorough ministrations of Mr. Mark Sullivan and the self-styled humorous magazines. One is inclined to feel however that such a work is, now at least, better suited to testing the sentimental depths...
...style. There is the "tennis girl of the eighties", racquet posed delicately behind the neck, feet swathed in high heeled boots, dress distended by the bustle, or as Mr. Allen quotes, "by a kind of ambulatory showcase, or exhibition grounds,"--for such was the female style. There is a camera portrait of Mrs. August Belmont hugging her muff in the midst of a fake snowstorm. There are faro games, and the Klondike, Fanny Ward in "Pippino" and Maude Adams in "Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass...
Memorial Hall is to be used during the meeting to display scientific apparatus, experiments, and the most recently discovered phenomena collected from all over the world. One piece of machinery, using a microscope camera, takes pictures of microbes whirling around on a disk at the rate of 20,000 revolutions per minute. It is used to study the effects of rough handling on marine animals...
Judge Callahan's announced intention was to "debunk" the Scottsboro case. At the first two trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed...