Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in the field of Applied Elasticity has yet been done except with idealized structures; the Harvard experiments will be the first to measure the elastic qualities of actual structures, by means of photographing polarized light sent through models made of transparent celluloid. Stress is shown by varied colorings and patterns produced on a photographic screen by the light...
...Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, the entire Anti-Saloon League...
...this point let us lake leave of the plot, trusting to the celluloid deities to protect virtue in distress to the last foot of film, and to the final fade-out, where their responsibility ends...
...work of constructing the models out of celluloid strips is facilitated by an invention of Professor George Beggs of Princeton. When the models of arches, frameworks, etc., are completed from carefully cut celluloid units they are subjected in certain parts to strains and vibrations which produce motions in other parts...
...Another method is to make one stereoscope view through a green filter, the other through a red filter. On the screen the two pictures overlap as one confused scene when looked at with the unhelped eyes. But spectacles with one red glass or celluloid lens, and the other of green, resolve the confusion, give the impression of a picture in grey and white. This method has been tried out in theatres. It is clumsy...