Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Sketch, in a page of other animal pictures, published the photograph of a simian eating a grape, with the following captions: "Catching the grape fallen from the forehead: a chimpanzee does his teatime trick'...Need it be added that the 'chimp' is our old friend...
...close-mouthed Ashenden knew better. On a lecture tour in the States he had had a note from her, had called to find her a widow in Yonkers. Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired, but just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose...
...Johns Hopkins University,! presided over a three-day conference of medical men. Twenty-thousand letters had been sent inviting doctors to instruction in reading X-ray pictures of cancerous bones. Only 300 appeared at Baltimore, but events proved that the 300 needed Dr. Bloodgood's instruction. He had photograph after photograph of cancerous bones and joints thrown on a screen. The 300 were asked to write down their diagnoses. At first very few were correct. But as projections continued scores mounted until at the end most of the doctors agreed in their picture readings, could return home more confident...
...Bloodgood repeated the offer which Johns Hopkins and all the other great cancer clinics have made: if a doctor is uncertain of an X-ray diagnosis, he may mail the photograph to the clinic. Experts will report the reading to him and not make a charge unless the doctor says that his patient can afford...
Reporter Stubbendorff's party had to fight off polar bears, shot five while they collected from the camp a sledge, oars, snowshoes, remnants of the balloon basket, boats, unopened food tins, ammunition, sleeping bag, instruments, clothing, a roll of exposed photograph film, a gold fruit knife, medicines, a white dress-cravat, etc. etc. Then they found a skull, probably that of Andrée.* But best of all they found Strindberg's diary...