Word: metered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects, its greatest weakness lies in Edward Tisse's carelessness with his exposure meter in straight photography...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...
...selection of the books which go into the collection. The liberality of Morris Gray in providing a fund for the purchase of modern poetry apparently was so great that almost anything is liable to turn up on the shelves provided that it was printed yesterday rime and meter...
...total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played...
...helped her into the car and was glad that the chauffeur touched his cap and said "Yessir!" instead of the "Sure, Bub," which had marked the departure from Harvard Square. The motor roared, a gentle laugh rang out, and he forgot the ticking, ticking, ticking meter...