Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corona, and two of the sky, in order to bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
With the exception of gold plate, the feast was a perfect model of those which used to be given by the Tsar's representatives, worthy of comparison with the best efforts of kings and princes and financiers...
...microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern, too, will vary; and its varytions may be accurately measured...
This in a Manhattan hotel function room. When all the lights were snapped on, a distinguished company, some 1,200 strong, stood each behind his plate while grace was said. A moment later the company sat-ambassadors, whilom-ambassadors, bankers, editors, divines, a general or two ; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, Authoress Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Davis and many another...
...must emphasize that the erection of the foregoing plate and the threat to Soviet citizens inscribed on it constitute a gross violation of the sovereignty of the Soviet republics...