Word: fountains
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...night. When the light portions of the negative appear, these dots follow each other so rapidly that they produce a dash. These impulses of even intensity are picked up and by a reverse process set to work making sketches. The recording device is double-a fountain pen records the sketches; and a photographic device registers the picture anew on a negative. Strangely enough, the pen draws pictures that at the present stage of development give better ideas of the original than the photographic reproduction, although the pen device was added only to give the receiving operator a better idea...
...Musee de duny, and stroll up the "Boul Mich" as far as the Jardin de Luxembourg. On the left is the Pantheon, proudly bearing its inscription Anx Grands Hommes la Patrie Reconnaissante. With these thoughts the boulevard must be crossed ; and down the Rue de Medicis, past the famous fountain of the same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre de la Nation. Here...
...choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
...disregard the advice of a retiring Premier and can charge a man of his own choice to form a new Cabinet. Likewise he can refuse to dissolve Parliament. In the legal sense, the conception of Blackstone, famed 18th Century jurist, is still true; the king is the fountain of honor, of office and of privilege...
...Lewis Carroll to the Bible and Shakespeare. Since his speech, more- over, the Democrats and Progressives are no longer in the dark as to his strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could, if he would, confound his opponents by telling them a thing...