Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correction was incorporated in later editions of the American, But the American was not at all flustered by the expose. It accused the Tribune and the World of mudslinging. The American truthfully pointed out that it had not said in so many words that the picture was an actual photograph of the fight. Its readers-"the most intelligent class of readers in New York"-certainly had not made such a mistaken inference. "From hundreds of pictures at hand, the ones most nearly corresponding to the wired-in reports of writers and artists at the ringside were chosen and details from...
...Jolson: "I received a letter which said: 'I repeat?there is but one Al Jolson!' and with it was a photograph of the writer?Warren G. Harding...
...partly due to the activities of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has called forth vigorous attempts on the part of investigators to secure objective evidence. The most ambitious project is that of the Scientific American, which recently offered $2,500 each to the first persons to produce an authentic psychic photograph and other psychic manifestations of physical character, under prescribed conditions, to the satisfaction of a committee consisting of Prof. William McDougall (psychologist), Dr. Daniel F. Comstock (physicist), Dr. Walter Franklin Prince and Hereward Carrington (psychic investigators), Harry Houdini (magician...
...These inaccurate prates were caused by several things. The climate, being warm, made it necessary to develop the plates in warm solutions, which often resulted in flukes or distortions in the photographs. Then again, since the cameras were not pointed directly at the starts, but received the solar and star rays by means of mirrors reflecting, the light into the lenses, the images of the stars were subjected to distortions even before they reached the camera lens, because the mirrors expanded or contracted with the slightest change in temperature. A third criticism arose over the method of measuring these plates...
...encyclopedia of knowledge in themselves. His continual "searching for this and that" took other form besides that of book-collecting. His "great anthropomorphological collection", which he began in his early youth and pursued throughout his life, was one of the most original contributions to psychology. A face, a photograph, portrait or pose that interested him was duly enlisted and catalogued: marginal sketches of hands and feet (another sign of his versatility) turned the pages of his books and notebooks into illuminated manuscripts. Some of these, fortunately have been preserved in the large bequest to the University...