Word: pod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inventor Land's speedup process takes all the steps at the same time. An ordinary commercial film with an opaque back is exposed in the usual way. The photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...
...longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...
...wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them she had no enduring reason to believe that they felt affection or even pity...
...actions were peas out of the same pod. For years the major studios, by controlling distribution, had been able to force exhibitors to take four or five grade B pictures for one star-studded...
...Pontius Pilatism." Negroes, says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...