Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perfectly good Japanese today are such words as "club" (see p. 51), "kodak," "beefsteak" (pronounced bifteki) and the whole argot of baseball from "foul" to "home run." Compared to Chinese, Japanese are atrocious linguists but keep patiently plugging. Often one will sit down beside a foreigner with the bland request: "Can I talk to you so I can improve my English...
...model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen...
...Eastman Kodak, which has not yet determined the selling price of the 32x72 in. films necessary for such a full-length radiograph, claims that it will be useful for taking a picture of all the broken and dislocated bones of an accident victim with a minimum of discomfort. Such pictures might also show all secondary cancers in an individual and the full extent of rickets. Students of anatomy and physiology could use such complete radiographs to study the varying relations of bones and organs to posture...
...week, John Investor was finding plenty to make him smile. Into his lap dropped $800,000,000 in quarterly and semi-annual dividends and bond interest due on or about July i. Chrysler Corp. paid him 25? per share plus an extra 25?. National Lead paid him $1.25, Eastman Kodak, $1, Montgomery Ward Class A, $1.75, Coca Cola, $1.50. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank added $10 to its regular dividend of $6 while First National Bank was paying its customary...
...with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of Eastman Kodak; Astronomers Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory and Clyde Fisher of Manhattan; Assistant Director Lyman James Briggs of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and Dr. Arthur Louis Day, Carnegie Institution geophysicist...