Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present O'Grady system, called Natural Color, uses a revolving shutter attachable to any standard size movie camera. The shutter contains a circle of gelatin sheets tinted to allow the seven primary colors† to pass through. As each section or "frame" of the film pauses its swift fraction of a second behind the camera lens** it receives the impression of a single color. Only those parts of the scene that are blue will be photographed through the blue screen; only the yellow scene parts through the yellow screen; etc. The next frame gets another color impression...
...Some sure items of expense and some probable ones are not included in the 3,700 million. Most notable: an almost certain Post Office deficit of 50 to 100 millions; a likely appropriation of some 40 millions for cruisers which Congress failed to pass at its last session, although President Coolidge asked...
...historian, I say very seriously that it is my opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like turning anarchist and throwing a bomb in the cellar...
Curious things happen to wings in certain positions, owing to such demoniac conflicts as those of suction on the upper surfaces and pressure on the lower. The adjustment must be delicate or nose-dives and involuntary tailspins result. Slotted areas in the wing, allowing air to pass through, seem to have a kindly, stabilizing effect. Thus aviation's newest safety device is called the wing slot. Technical journals still use "probably" and "theoretically" in referring...
...which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once the process is perfected, they are simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more or less transparent according to the light rays that come in. There is no color in the finished film...