Word: darkroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haitian market women, Manhattan shoeshine boys, Indian fakirs, and (above all) Junior, aged three. Innumerable times he went through the sweet agony of fetching his prints from the corner drugstore or the mailbox,* and if his work did not come out well, he blamed the unknown vandals in the darkroom, the makers of the camera, the film, the subject, and sometimes even himself. He spoiled about 10% of his film, enough to make individual shots of the entire population of the North American continent, and took enough bad pictures to give ulcers to every museum director...
Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone else's picture) soot & whitewash (a print that has no middle tones) willy (a soft, fuzzy picture...
...Ells was notifying Cambridge Police, Thomas H. Stearns '53 came out of the photo darkroom. Stearns, unaware of what had happened, discovered that his camera and bag had been stolen. The janitor of the building next door found the camera in the parking lot. It was in good condition...
...photographic board grounds candidates in the infricacies of the Sirobe and the darkroom while the business board gives competitors a thorough training in the methods of selling ads, selling up male and dummying papers...
Perhaps most popular among its assets is Eliot's fine grille in the basement of I-entry where the hungry student can procure almost anything to eat from 5 p.m. till midnight. The house also boasts a chapel, a fine library, the best House darkroom, a projected are studio, ping-pong and pool tables, and squash courts, as well as the smallest and worst junior common room of all the Houses...