Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advisers, delivered his favorite platform oration to the TIME staff, swarmed out again. He was defeated at the polls. In Denver, an old man from " hobo row" brought in a faded, crumpled news paper cut of his boy in uniform. He wanted to know if we could run the photograph and do a story about his son's receiving the bronze star. Our man explained that the photograph defied reproduction. At length, the old man went away, satisfied that TIME, at any rate, knew all about...
...front cover there is a colored photograph of the usual elegant female, standing on a chair while a grey-haired, spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
...Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed in Mr. Herbert Morrison ... he is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
This difference allows astronomers to photograph the brighter parts of the sun's atmosphere with a "spectroheliograph," a prism spectroscope which casts sunlight of only one color on a photographic plate. The light from the solar atmosphere, glowing in that color, shows in the picture. Most of the dazzling light from the surface, being of other colors, is excluded by the spectroscope...
Harvard's contribution to the experiment centers in great part about two giant cameras which will photograph the entire experiment from the desert floor, some twenty miles below the violent explosions in the air above new Mexico. These cameras, equipped with rotating shutters, will record the flight of the cast-off missiles covering as area of 40 to 45 degrees...