Word: shuttered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th-of-a-second camera shutter could have done...
...microphone, handed the card to a Boy Scout. The Boy Scout slipped it to another Boy Scout, and thus from hand to hand of four more Scouts to a blond, wispy young man at a photographic recording machine. With a dainty flourish, the blond young man tripped the shutter of his machine, then handed the card to a pair of young women, who removed the numbered paper, pasted it on a sheet. In the vast auditorium pit, scores of newsmen and photographers paid practically no attention while the same rigmarole was repeated over & over. Finally, Brigadier General Hershey & team could...
...little Galerie St. Etienne, Anna Moses had her first one-man show. It consisted of 35-odd paintings, nearly her whole output, still primly mounted in the old looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...
...withdrawn from a vein in the arm, mixed with citrate to prevent clotting. The citrated blood is passed through a rubber tube into a small, round quartz and steel irradiation chamber. Against the quartz window the doctor fits a lamp, like a flashlight, which emanates ultraviolet rays. An automatic shutter turns the lamp off every few seconds to prevent over-irradiation. Length of irradiation varies from nine to 14 seconds, depending upon the severity of the infection. Once the blood is delicately irradiated, it is returned immediately to the same vein...