Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likenesses of the Quality. He was immediately successful, made numerous improvements in the process. Tinted Brady daguerreotypes on ivory won a gold medal at the London World's Fair of 1851. About 1855 successful Photographer Brady imported from Britain one Alexander Gardner, an expert in the wet plate process invented by Frederick Scott Archer, which used glass plates dipped in collodion, permitted almost instantaneous exposures. Brady & Gardner later opened another studio in Washington. Almost every eminent U. S. citizen felt it necessary to sit for Brady & Gardner...
...congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...
...attraction felt. One of the human brains belonged to the late Percival Lowell, another to William Henry Pickering, both Harvard astronomers. In January 1930, true to Lowell calculations, a new planet beyond outermost Neptune and 3,680,000,000 mi. from the sun picked its way across a photographic plate in the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. It was subsequently called Pluto?the first two letters of the name being the initials of Percival Lowell...
This year will see a reorganization of clinical work at the Dental School, it was announced yesterday at the Dean's office. In the past students have spent mornings on plate-work and afternoons doing fillings. The new plan seeks to make the Senior year resemble the conditions of private practice as far as possible...
Students in their last year will see patients throughout the day, diagnose for them, and do necessary plate and filling work in both mornings and afternoons. As usual this work will be supervised by the instructors...