Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to small cameras of those days-we used, at the French gunnery school at Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane...
...criticism he expects will parallel the criticism he aroused when he reported finding germs in archaic sedimentary rocks, ancient coal, deepwell petroleum: that bugs got into his specimens despite all his germicidal precautions...
...reload his camera in the air, could make only one exposure per flight. ¶ No pilot has been heard from who saw so many astonishing sights in the air as this man's camera, pointed at random, caught perfectly. (The camera was supposed to be pointing not always parallel to the machine gun; sometimes toward the side or rear...
These changes will not affect the Benley course, the official course, for the Freshman and the 150 pound crews. A mile and a half in length this begins just below the Cottage Farm Fridge and runs downstream along the Cambridge side of the river to a point parallel with the M.I.T. gymnasium. Coach Charles Whiteside has not definitely concluded to abandon the old course entirely but at least the men one will be of real value in conditioning the Varsity for the four mile Yale classic at New London on June...
...Lincoln Steffans' autobiography there is an excellent parallel. He had the belief that ignoring communists was more effective than preventing their outbursts of self-expression. His theory was tested one May Day when he presided over the New York police force in Union Square. The demonstration was a flasco. The communists had not found any protesting policemen; thus one of the duller May Days ended without casualties. This should give Dr. Robinson an idea of a way to punish recalcitrant editors...