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...electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Copey Moves Out | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...stocky, florid criminal lawyer, got a chance to make good his promise when the citizens of Seattle chose him for Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation as one of the smartest defense attorneys in the Northwest. Married, father of three daughters and a son, he gave up drinking and smoking several years ago because of his health. To him in his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Dore's Door | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...From my study I see in the lamplight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

From my study I see in the lamplight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Experiments are being conducted at the Observatory with a view to using the light of the stars as a standard of light in photography. It is the practice among manufacturers of photographic supplies to sensitize plates with lamplight of different degrees of brilliancy, and so the numbers of different makes of plates have no comparative significance. By this method, an unvarying standard of measurement will be obtained. The apparatus at the Observatory is very simple, consisting merely of a contrivance for allowing the light to shine through a small hole to the plate. A secondary and more convenient standard will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photographic Standard of Light. | 2/10/1900 | See Source »

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