Word: darkroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minutes for Tea. There was a darkroom jampacked with photographic materials (Dodgson was one of the most talented amateur photographers of his day) ; mousetraps of his own design with sliding doors and "humane" compartments for drowning; boxes of notepaper in five different sizes for letters of reply ("Let me see," he would say, "for this letter I will use number three size; that should meet the case exactly"); clockwork bears, mice, frogs and bats. Stacked on the shelves were copies of the scores of pamphlets he loved to write, their titles ranging from Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter...
...feel of cash in somebody else's pocket we can fitcha in. If you've got that certain sense of touch that makes a businessman a businessman, the Service News was made for ya. Loin the business from the bottom up. Or ya like the solitude of the darkroom and the cool dribble of hypo through your fingers. Perhaps it's the flash of light bulbs and the excitement of dangerous assignments that fascinates ya. We got the darkroom, hypo, and we can cook up the danger...
...leading engraver, helped raise landscape painting to such esteem that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1858 ran an artists' excursion train, took Durand and a party of colleagues on a cross-country junket. The six-car train, equipped with piano, sofas, sleeping quarters and a photographic darkroom, stopped wherever an artist felt the urge to sketch. A popular success, Durand eventually became president of the National Academy of Design...
...paper has all equipment needed except the brains. It has photographic equipment in the form of a Speed Graphic and a well stocked darkroom. News men will be furnished with a gilt edged typewriter and busy board men may expect a well filled contract book which needs only a few signatures to make it shine...
...Planes. The Army's standard equipment is the mobile X-ray unit, of which the Medical Corps has more than 3,000 (cost: $2,380 each). The outfit, consisting of an X-ray machine, a generator, a tent darkroom and a table for patients, is carried in three Army trunks and takes six minutes to assemble in the field. As no calipers are used, an injured man need not be moved while he is on the table. In most cases the X-ray man merely spots the foreign body by fluoroscopy and gives the surgeon a report...