Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valparaiso, Ind., Donald Ditsler, 12, raced down the home stretch, his mount leading the field at the Porter County fair mule race. Suddenly the mule leaped into the air, looped, fell, rolled over, expired. Cause: the mule had trod on a ground wire connected with a railway switch. Donald Ditsler, insulated from shock by the saddle, survived...
...Star State were changed into a constellation of five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead of 20. The mule-like kick in Mr. Garner's threat-proposal lay in the fact that Texas can turn itself into five States whether or not the rest of the U. S. approves. When Texas was admitted into the Union 84 years ago, Congress authorized it to form "new States of convenient...
History. Photography 50 years ago, when George Eastman entered the business, was a cumbersome and tedious pastime. One wishing to go into the country for a few snapshots had first to procure the services of a mule. On the mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...
...when he was a bank clerk in Rochester, N. Y., that George Eastman started to drive the mule out of photography. One day he paid a local photographer $5 for a lesson in picture-taking. Shortly afterward he found in an English magazine an article on dry photographic plates which obviated the necessity for elaborate preparation just before the picture was snapped. George Eastman worked in the evenings at home to develop a dry plate (glass covered with a sensitized emulsion; of his own. Accomplishing this, he resigned from the bank, started in business for himself...