Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly professional daring, The Flying Carpet can safely be recommended to ladies' social circles...
...have personality as well as engineering knowledge. According to the plan developed by Mr. Walters, the student first rates himself as to a number of vital trails and characteristics and fifteen others rate the same student by means of questionnaires. The result of these psychological tests is a personality "photograph" which gives the Director otherwise unobtainable knowledge upon the student's attitude, disposition, and capacity. All students whose averages fall into the lowest quarter are invited to discuss with the personnel director a program of development. In a three-year period, such a group rison above the average...
Most striking is the life-like perspective of the group. The pie looks really edible. The doll's hands look as if they could be grasped. Reason for this is that the design was not a painting but a color photograph of the objects, an innovation in magazine cover work...
...track looked as though someone had driven an automobile through the jumps. Willi Welscher of Germany had knocked down four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George Saling had kicked over one hurdle, the last, when...
...gave it all ($42,000) to charity. With her four children, Sigrid Undset, now 50, lives in a house over 900 years old on the shore of a lake in the valley of Lillehammer, Norway. When she looks up from her writing, she sees on her desk a photograph of U. S. Authoress Willa Gather. Other books: The Master of Hestviken, Jenny, Krist