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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wasteland. Colored cinematography has at last achieved a colorable success. "Technicolor" is the process with which this picture paints Zane Grey in hues like unto none he ever dreamed of conveying to the babbitt consciousness. His reddest Indian, his most blushful sunset, his glaringest desert appear before the eye, often with a marked degree of credibility. The characters thus incolorated are incarnated in Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove. These, together with Death Valley, the Arizona cacti, Red Rock Canyon?flawless in beauty all?glorify themselves forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Chesapeake 'Bug Eye' lay to leeward. I called to the man aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lake | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

Brigadier-General Frank T. Hines, Director of the Board of Appeals, U. S. Veterans' Bureau: "In the midst of a hearing in my office, an ex-service man arose, struck me in the eye with his fist. I grappled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Newburg, N. Y., the glass eye of Ernest L. Westlake exploded in its socket, lacerated the cavity, while its owner sat at his desk at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Explosion | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...lighthouses and beacons will be 5,279,000,000. At the main lighting stations (Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte, Cheyenne) the towers will carry electric light beacons of 500,000,000 candle power visible for 150 miles, set slightly above the horizon to meet the eye of the pilot in the sky, and flashing 'round in a circle three times a minute. Incandescent acetylene lights of 5,000,000 candle power will flash at intermediate points, 22 miles apart and every field will also have all obstacles illuminated, floodlights for the actual landing, and illuminated wind vanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Night Mail | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

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