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...transparent cellulose-acetate film, forming a photosensitive layer on one side. When exposed to light, the bromide becomes activated so that it is easily reduced to metallic silver by a developer. The grains of metallic silver remain as black spots after fixing, so that the image is a "negative"-darkest where the light was strongest...
There is no oratory in December 7. Twenty-eight years ago last week, as World War I began, Sir Edward Gray, tall, elegant, elegiac, looked out on a darkening London on the darkest day of his life and murmured the phrases that will live longer than his works. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Like a thin spire of a phrase left standing from another epoch, the words ominously summed up the mood of the pre-War world...
...Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...
...Ainu (popularly known as the hairy Ainu), some 16,000 of them, inhabit northern islands of Japan. A few live on the half-Soviet island of Sakhalin. How they got there is one of anthropology's darkest mysteries. Last week the Smithsonian Institution reported to the U.S. the findings of Russian Anthropologist Lev Yakolevich Sternberg...
...darkest blot on Britain's wartime industrial effort is easy to spot: though Great Britain is one of the world's mammoth coal producers, Great Britain is short of coal...