Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that TIME is on the table about the home for anyone, no matter how young, to read, if he can! That baseball is played on Sundays, and that the front cover would be better given to the Royal Family (not economic Royalists) or something similar. After the lovely photo of Jean Harlow some months ago and the nude in the Art Department (of all places) a few weeks ago, and now this of Di Maggio, I feel I must tell you that at the end of my subscription in June 1938 I will renew for only one year, instead...
...group, the waterworks superintendents are famed among hotelmen and convention solicitors for the fact that they almost never do any damage. In their convention lobby they gazed earnestly at water tinkling through complete model systems; at a scale model of Los Angeles' new automatic chlorinator, which has a photo-electric "eye" to maintain the proper proportion of chlorine. Highlights of the meeting...
Note the remarkable composite of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover in the facial appearance of Theodore Jesse Hoover (TIME photo, May 11). Can this be the candidate Republicans have been praying...
...adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds...
...tall. "No amount of coaxing, flattery or bribery will induce them to let us take photographs or to sketch them. An explanation of this dislike of photography perhaps may be that provided by Albertina. . . . She flashed on the writers and announced: 'Give you my picture? A photo? Not me! The last chap I gave my picture to showed it to the police and they...