Word: mm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...build bombs." The result is nothing to laugh at; when police searched the family house, they found five homemade bombs (two with electronic timing devices) in a crawl space under the house, along with at least 15 other explosive devices, including a hand grenade, two 155-mm howitzer shell casings and literature about bombmaking, some of it from the Internet...
...photographic past who obsessively amassed some 5 million images in the archive that bore his name; in Boca Raton, Fla. A curator of rare books, Bettmann fled to New York from Nazi Germany, carrying with him two steamer trunks filled with thousands of rolls of exposed 35-mm film, the seeds of his fabled collection. The Bettmann Archive has belonged to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates since...
...MM SHELL They weigh only half a pound, but when spewed at 7,200 rounds a minute from the six twirling muzzles of a Vulcan cannon, these armor-piercing shells are formidable indeed. Pentagon officials couldn't begin to estimate the number used Cost: around $20 each...
...York in 1952, he didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews and the Irish and the Italians were all leaving for the suburbs. So Weegee moved on too. Until his death in 1968, he devoted himself to 16-mm film projects and darkroom tricks that turned people into fun-house mirror caricatures, work of a kind that had been done earlier by Andre Kertesz and more effectively by Bill Brandt...
...Digital Snapshots Cameras that shoot pixels, not film, made the leap from pricey novelty to low-cost alternative to 35 mm this year, as nearly every cameramaker worth its viewfinder released quality digital cameras in the $250-to-$1,000 range, and sales nearly doubled. Next up? Deeper price cuts, please...