Word: flashbulbing
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...into the bloodstream, they can make a patient so sensitive to light that he must spend months in a darkened room. (A white mouse injected with porphyrins may flourish in the dark, but will drop dead the instant it is exposed to the light-shock of a photo flashbulb.) Since no such accidents to humans have been reported, Dr. Corwin concludes that the chlorophyll products are not getting into the bloodstream...
Flash Test. To help camera users eliminate poor pictures caused by faulty flashbulb connections, Westinghouse brought out a bulb to test synchronizers on cameras, the first such simple testing device. The bulb fits in either smooth-surface or threaded sockets. Price...
...Owner Len Carey bought him as a puppy, sight unseen, and has kept him in show trim by exercising him in Manhattan's Central Park. Carey, an advertising executive, was not surprised at his dog's triumph: "He's strictly a ham. He knows what a flashbulb...
...ugly, including the figure of Christ, and many are menacing as barbed wire besides. The color is a dirty near-monochrome, was used by Lebrun in the hope that a film short would be based on his picture. It has the glaring light and the wriggling shadows of a flashbulb photograph...
...concert time. Women hiked up their long evening dresses and men peeled off their shoes and socks and waded through deep puddles to get to the Fair Park Auditorium. Next day, Toscanini's son Walter conked a Los Angeles newspaper photographer with a movie camera for popping a flashbulb too close to the Maestro as they stepped off a plane...