Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph "purporting to be of John D. Rockefeller III" was, in actuality, a photograph of another. It was supplied to the International Newsreel Photo service by the New York Daily Mirror and printed over the name of John D. Rockefeller III by the Daily Mirror, by the New York American, and by TIME. Those who are eager to examine a true likeness of John Davison Rockefeller III can find one on this page. - ED. "In New Orleans...
Another feat was to photograph and thus make visible atomic disintegration. How he aid so he demonstrated to the American Chemical Society at their 1926 meeting in Los Angeles. The scientists there knew that in moisture-laden air invisible particles of dust collect moisture until they become visible water vapor. Professor Wilson theorized that ionized molecules in a dust-free, moisture-logged receptacle would also provide foci for water condensation. Into such a chamber he shot alpha particles from an x-ray machine. Drops did collect on the alpha particles...
Trial. The case opened with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
...brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio, an electric heater, revolver shots, an automobile, a flashlight photograph...
About 20 Freshmen will report today in the classes from 2 to 5 o'clock. These men are required to take the six weeks' course of exercises, since their posture was graded D on the photographs taken in the physical examination. Another photograph will be made at the end of the course, and the Freshmen must be graded C or higher on the second photograph to satisfy the requirement...