Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dynamic Edda this-summer went to Berlin, was feted by Realmleader Hitler as if she had been visiting royalty, and returned to Rome with a photograph of Der Führer inscribed to Countess Ciano in the most complimentary terms. Today, at 33, Count Ciano is the youngest Foreign Minister of any Great Power, six years junior to Great Britain's "handsome young" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Just before leaving Rome last week he was made a general in the Fascist Militia, arrived at Berlin with a gold eagle on his cap and gold epaulets on his shoulders...
Runner-up for first prize, and a $500 prizewinner in the landscape division, was a photograph of a sunset behind mountainous thunderclouds submitted by Edmund P. Hogan of Meriden, Conn., an official of International Silver...
Lights in the auditorium were dimmed. The photograph of a very sick man flashed on a screen. Continued Dr. Beck: "This man [on the screen] is a surgeon, a fellow of this College, who came to me because he knew of my work and had confidence in it. He had diabetes and other complications which made him a bad risk. But he said, 'You get me off the table and I'll do the rest...
...least of the Fairchild aerial wonders are aerial contour maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss...
...little self-portrait remained in the Holbein family for generations, was not known to the world of art until 1930 when Art Expert Dr. Paul Ganz cleaned it, published its photograph in a magazine. Since then museums and private collectors in a dozen countries have been anxious for it. The only other absolutely authentic Holbein self-portrait is a watercolor in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...