Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...band struck up The Star Spangled Banner. Small flags rained down from the ceiling. Anna Case, famed singer, repeated the words of the anthem. Then everybody twisted his head around and looked backward while the official photograph was taken...
...Belin made his tests in the presence of a group of scientists and engineers. The pictures were said to show details clearly, despite the handicaps of stormy weather, occasioning atmospheric interferences, and of the proximity of high power electric engines. Transmission of each photograph took five minutes. The New York Tel. & Tel. inventors have also conducted successful experiments in wireless photography. Their telephone device is applicable to the transmission of pictures by radio whenever atmospheric conditions are such that steadiness of transmission and freedom from interference can be assured. This, they declare, has been fully demonstrated. The Belin machine, however...
...that dear old piece of hokum--a crystal globe--they take their heroine through ten breath-taking scenes and several compromising situations to show her the probable results of her different choices. Towards the end, they evidently run out of scenery and words, for they fail to photograph her after she has married the hero. We think this might have been the worst solution of all, although the playwrights, not sharing our apprehensions, throw her blindly into his arms...
...Century Co. has a postcard received from Major and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell, now in Northern Africa, posted at Hellville, Island of Nossi Be, Madagascar. Under its supercription is the note, "120 in the shade;" on the reverse side is a photograph of some twenty or more white-clad, topi-topped backs along a verandan railing, the owners facing a door-the caption is: "Waiting for the bar to open". And the message...
...every detail by the University. It was not so much a University town as a town attached to a University. All the residents seemed to live there exclusively in order to rent rooms to the students, to feed them at the cafes and restaurants, to sell them books, to photograph them on foot and on horseback, singly and in groups, with courtplastered scars on their faces, or with dogs; to keep their daughters from flirting too outrageously with students and yet to be proud of such romances; to nudge each other when meeting a famous professor on the street...