Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Charles Francis Brush, Cleveland inventor of arc lights and storage batteries, died in 1929, he gave $500,000 for a Brush Foundation to improve the human race and regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind...
Last week the old familiar Epstein sensation was going full blast again. The Daily Mirror, stirred to the depths of its cylinder presses, refused to reproduce a photograph...
...Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song in the picture, "Lullaby of Broadway," in which Winifred Shaw's head is suddenly and with ghastly effect imposed as a transparent silhouet over an airplane photograph of Times Square...
Year ago U. S. newspicture editors were astonished to receive from Germany what purported to be the photograph of a man flying under his own power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated rotors strapped to his chest. He wore skis for landing gear, was shown just after the take-off with his friends trotting behind. The picture-as most editors learned too late-was a hoax concocted by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung for its annual April Fool issue (TIME, April...
Reporter Vanderbilt does not increase his reputation for accuracy when he remarks (hat Rolls-Royce was the only make of car his family ever used, and then prints a photograph of his father driving him in a pre-War Packard. He becomes incredible with such an anecdote as the one in which he has the late Sir Douglas Haig tap him on the shoulder and inquire: "I say, American, how long do you think this bally war will last?" He admits he lost his entire share of the family estate ($1,903,000) in his ill-advised venture into tabloid...