Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Besides the Vectograph, Land still has a fistful of other new products about ready for the market. Among them: a new camera film so sensitive that it will take pictures by candlelight, and a quick-developing film for the Polaroid Land Camera that will take pictures in full color. Only last month Polaroid began shipping to commercial users an X-ray film that can be developed in one minute. It is already in wide use in Korea. With these, plus his glasses, Land thinks that Polaroid this year will once again boost sales...
...JEALOUS LOVER pulls out all the heart throbs in a teary story about a British ballet impresario (James Mason) and a dancer with a weak heart (Moira Shearer). This yarn has all the trappings of high romance: shadowy settings, flickering candlelight, crashing music and overwrought passions. But its poetry is buried beneath a heavy load of prosaic moviemaking...
Some House residents dined by candlelight, which illuminated the dining room for a time. Other inconveniences finally forced the early closing of the dining hall, but Eliot residents resorted to facilities in nearby Houses. Eliot men remained calm while searching out rooms with lanterns and candles...
...Bernice B. Cronkhite, Dean of the Graduate school, will read the winning story at traditional candlelight services on December...
...lanterns that shone in the dim dawn of Japanese history were globefish-gutted, puffed, dried, and filled with live fireflies. The lanterns that pleased Hirohito's grandfather, and have been a delight ever since, are more complex. They are designed to transform candlelight into globes of muted color. Each one requires up to 120 bamboo strips, no thicker than toothpicks, which are bound together with silk threads to make a collapsible frame. The frame is covered with eight sections of silk or oiled paper, painted with traditional figures. Gluing the shell to the frame is the hardest part...