Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pictures in the dark. The room they posed in was flooded with infra-red light from an airtight, light-tight cabinet. A camera was loaded with a proper plate. The camera clicked a one-second exposure. The lights went on. While the businessmen blinked their eyes and chatted, photographers developed the plate, made prints. Fifteen minutes later the businessmen could see themselves as no man had ever seen them, the way they looked in the dark. Practical uses of the infra-red camera might be to photograph burglars or other wild animals...
...Tutors' Common Room is a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Buckminster, the Unitarian minister, and one of Samuel Cooper Thatcher by Gilbert Sturt Newton. The Students' Common Room has an enlarged photograph of the crew of 1858. It is a six-oared shell with President Eliot...
British Discipline, Several years ago the Illustrated London News printed a photograph from the U. S. cinema What Price Glory? It showed a disheveled, drunken Captain Flagg scuffling with Sergeant Quirt over an estaminet table. Below was a pithy caption: "Not British Discipline." Since then British Discipline has suffered many a rude shock. There was the disgraceful affair off Malta in 1928 when Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard was compulsorily retired for shameful conduct, such as insulting Bandmaster Percy Barnacle (TIME, March 6, 1928 et seq.). Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor...
Mechanically the picture was a variation of the "composograph" (faked picture) with which the Macfadden tabloid Evening Graphic used to sensationalize the news. "Composographs" are rarely used these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead...
...Humbert to England to claim the property. Last week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert. On it was written: "My pal, Teddy. Killed in a fatal accident...