Word: polaroiding
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...Friday, 75 years after Edwin H. Land, Class of 1930, dropped out of Harvard to research light polarization and start the Polaroid Corporation, the Cambridge-based company announced its plans to file for bankruptcy...
...humiliation developing like a Polaroid - I reeled in a good-sized rock. Or rather, the great mossy rock, resting calmly in the shallow, greenish water off the point, had reeled me in. The rock had me mounted on its wall. I was the rock's trophy, for a moment...
...urge his son to work harder. Patrick knocked on 3,000 doors and spent an unheard-of $93,000--$73 for every vote he got--to win a $300-a-year job. On Election Day, Ted, Joan and John Jr. stationed themselves at polling places with hired photographers and Polaroid cameras, posing for souvenir snapshots with voters. Even Skeffington's campaign manager had one taken. Patrick won in a landslide, and on election night Ted phoned Jackie and Rose to announce that it had been his "happiest election...
...Though Wheelwright concentrated in Fine Arts as an undergraduate, he returned to Harvard as a physics professor. In this position Wheelwright met Edwin H. Land, class of 1930, with whom Wheelwright joined to form Land Wheelwright Laboratories, which later became Polaroid Company...
...Wheelwright left Polaroid during World War II and served in various tasks during the war, including as a naval pilot...