Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York...
They cannot differentiate between two cigarets nor between straight Turkish or domestic tobaccos. Sight apparently is necessary to recognize a specific cigaret. This checks with the fact that smoking in the dark is less pleasurable than in the light. However, it does not account for the actual distaste that the smoker of one brand has for another until several days' smoking makes him used...
...Hollywood amphitheatre was to marry a Viola Strom. "To a Nordic Princess" was written for her. After its rendition, Australian Percy and Nordic Viola would take each other respectively for man and wife, with orchestra for altar, vast audience for attendant friends and in the glare of light...
...simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more or less transparent according to the light rays that come in. There is no color in the finished film. It is a pattern of various degrees of transparency and opaqueness. If run off in an ordinary projector...
...Sure things" and "hot tips," while still plentiful, carry light weight with sophisticated investors. But "financial counsel" has the color of wisdom and respectability. An idol crashed, therefore, when members and guests of Manhattan's Delta Upsilon Club listened, last week, to an address by John Moody, publisher of Moody's Manual, President of Moody's Investors' Service, financial analyst, author of The Art of Investing and How to Invest Money Wisely. Said Analyst Moody, humbly...