Word: papering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found, but photography has given us a means by which a typical portrait of a number of individuals can readily be arrived at. A negative of each person is taken separately; these are then all photographed or combined upon one plate, and from this the picture is transferred to paper. As the images of the faces of each individual are exactly timed, so they have an equal effect upon the sensitiy plate, the result is an average picture of the whole number of persons photographed. This is especially interesting, since the peculiarities of the individuals have disappeared, and the whole...
...roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows...
AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.A joint session of the American Economic Association and the American Historical Association will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Tuesday, May 24, at 3 p.m. A paper on "The Study of Statistics in Colleges" will be read by Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, one on "Our Legal Tender Decisions," by Professor E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, and one by Dr. A. B. Hart, on the "Biography of a River and Harbor Bill...
Monday, May 9. The translation at Sight of Passages from Latin Authors. At 9.15 o'clock. The General Paper. At 2 o'clock...
...friends and allies, the shacks. In fact, the newsboy plague is further reaching than the shack pest, for a shack will not attack a man who does not carry a racket, whereas the newsboys pursue everybody they see. Even when a victim waves in the air his already purchased paper, the newsboy still persists. If the number of boys was reduced to three or four, and these remained at the hall, just as many papers would be sold, and the walk to breakfast and dinner would be rendered less disagreeable...