Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's hitting has picked up in recent games. Against Bates, the team hitting was well over 300 as the Crimson batters garnered 15 hits out of a total of 35 trips to the plate...
...photographic work the cell is illuminated with cadmium light (beyond the upper reach of the visible spectrum) which gives a trueness of detail on the plate unobtainable with ordinary light containing a variety of wavelengths...
...Springfield, Mass., 16 years ago, a tramp asked Mrs. John Newton for a sandwich. She gave him a plate of soup, some of her husband's clothes, 50?. Last week, the tramp, Eugene Stanford died, willed Mrs. John Newton...
...when he was a bank clerk in Rochester, N. Y., that George Eastman started to drive the mule out of photography. One day he paid a local photographer $5 for a lesson in picture-taking. Shortly afterward he found in an English magazine an article on dry photographic plates which obviated the necessity for elaborate preparation just before the picture was snapped. George Eastman worked in the evenings at home to develop a dry plate (glass covered with a sensitized emulsion; of his own. Accomplishing this, he resigned from the bank, started in business for himself...
...primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram: WHO'S LOONY...