Word: print
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique for getting sharp definition in distant as well as foreground objects once inspired the "F.64" Group-a club of California photographers sworn to experiment with that tiniest aperture of the diaphragm. For exacting selfdiscipline, Weston is still unique. He never takes duplicate negatives, never "crops" or trims a print to improve his composition...
...size 1886 five-dollar bill, advised consultation with Federal authorities. Assistant Deputy William A. Carlson of the Secret Service took one long look at Changes of Time, confiscated it under Sections 175 and 177 of the Federal Criminal Code (passed in 1909) which make it unlawful to design, engrave, print or in any manner make or execute anything in the likeness of any obligation...
Philadelphia's rusty Mayor S. (for Sam) Davis Wilson loves to see his name in print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936 he began spending $7.000,000 of city and WPA money for an airport at Hog Island in the Delaware River marshes southwest of town-a field to be named S. Davis Wilson Airport...
...revived, in format a duplicate of its old self. Dedicated to "a renaissance in Southern literature," its new editor is Richmond-born Frieda Meredith Dietz, 34, who in childhood "listened for the echo" of Poe's footsteps in the old Messenger building, where her father ran a print shop. (Her brother, August Dietz Jr., 36, is publisher...
Each issue of the new Messenger will print a resume of the old. The Lynchburg (Va.) Advance thinks that "present day writing will suffer poignantly by contrast." But except for a sketch by Kentuckian Poet Jesse Stuart, the revived Messenger shows few signs of outraging the traditions of the old; on the contrary smells a little too strongly of lavender...