Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first photograph of the President and his Cabinet, taken some two months ago, was tardily released last week just before it became obsolete. Pictured at President Roosevelt's left was beaming little William Woodin in cloth- topped high laced shoes. On New Year's Day the President with "great sorrow" accepted Secretary of the Treasury Woodin's second offer to resign his post. Near Tucson, Ariz., where none but his immediate family was admitted to his bedside, Mr. Woodin's throat ailment (reputedly cancer) had not sufficiently improved, he thought, to warrant a continuation...
...minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough to bring remote stars into Earth's "back yard...
...case, the odds would be on Simon. Barringer has quick wits but he is a sentimentalist and a solitary drinker. These faults lead him into easily imagined predicaments. When a young girl (Irene Hervey) requests him to defend her father for killing her stepmother, Barringer glances at a photograph of the stepmother and utters a low neurotic moan. She is his onetime wife, whose portrait, for a decade, he has kept among the bottles in his desk. By the time he is ready to organize his defense, the girl's father has been twice tried and condemned to death...
...Kitchener and Sir Douglas Haig, he generally enlists the reader's sympathy. Apparently Kitchener for a long time could not be made to see the necessity of increasing supplies of heavy guns and high explosives, objecting to them obstinately on the grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge and demolish the Germans. One of the many muddies Lloyd...
...finest photograph of a meteor ever taken at Oak Ridge was obtained recently by one of the patrol cameras. The observatory is making an extensive study of this form of star, and has a collection of over 500 plates. Going at a rate of 40 miles a second, the meteor was brighter than Venus, an Observatory authority declared, casting a bright yellow light almost as strong as a flashlight held-at a distance of a few yards...