Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget. Viewed through its wooden lorgnette-style holder, special, double photographs looked solidly three-dimensional, and entertained the young & old on dull Sunday afternoons. Last week the Navy announced that it was perfecting an improvement: a single photograph which appears three-dimensional without benefit of "viewer...
Recorded music is getting better. Part of the credit goes to improved electronic devices, part to engineers who combine technical knowledge with artistic temperament. One of these latter rare specimens is John Hays Hammond Jr., 58, America's gaudiest inventor and holder of nearly 800 patents. Last week he was tuning his latest gadget: an improved "dynamic amplifier," which coaxes uncannily lifelike music out of phonograph records. It was already licensed to RCA and A.T. & T., this month would be demonstrated to the crowned heads of the phonograph industry...
...common stock. With the stock came a sorry financial history. Allen E. Walker, oldtime Washington real-estate man who started to build the Mayflower, lost it in a mortgage deal before he got through putting the basement in. Finally completed at a cost of $13 million by the mortgage-holder, William J. Moore, it went into receivership in 1931. In 1940 the Donner Estates picked up the hotel and its mortgage for 12? on the dollar. But lately the Mayflower has been grinding out tidy profits as regularly as it has had to say "Sorry, sir, no rooms left...
...tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave him a shave and a facial massage...
Conspicuous by his absence among the sprinters is Doug Pirnie, holder of the University 220 yard dash record, who will probably not run at all this season. In his stead, Bob Cameron and Harvey Thayer are slated to compete...