Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inevitable result of that hostility toward the membership and actions of the Council, manifested at the mass meeting last Monday. The three Council actions which aroused undergraduate ire were the abolition of three time honored institutions, the Junior Prom, the Freshman restrictive customs, and the Flour Picture (the photograph of the first year men, in old clothes white with flour and eggs). The mass meeting on Monday condemned the abolition of the Freshman customs and the Flour Picture by 477 to 27 and 435 to 77, votes respectively. Moreover the Junior Prom was favored by a four to one vote...
...Bennett is a sort of modern Dickens--a man of the romantic type. He makes a genuine effort to photograph English life--his efforts in this respect culminating perhaps in "These Twain...
...months ago Edouard Belin, French inventor, completed an invention for transmitting photographs by wire (TIME, April 7). Last week the Radio Corporation of America sent a photograph by wireless from New York to Warsaw, Poland, and back again-9,000 miles. It was a picture of Major General James G. Harbord, President of the Corporation, and the reproduction was perfect. The picture was not reproduced in Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker...
...Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...
Making astronomers independent of cloud and weather conditions, Lieutenant John A. Macready of coast-to-coast fame and Lieutenant A. W. Stevens will photograph the eclipse on Sept. 10 at an altitude of 20,000 feet. While the moon's shadow passes over the earth at 1,000 miles per hour, the aviators at this tremendous height will see it for more than a minute and will be able to make some unique and extremely valuable records...