Word: shuttering
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There is no sign of play-acting in the graceful movements of the Polynesians. Their skins are brown and smooth; litheness and strength and daring. The shutter has caught them working, laughing, and idling the sunny hours away. One feels somehow that they have never known dissatisfaction and worry, that they have never grown up. But see the picture, before we tell you too much about...
Through the chinks of a Roman shutter, tiny sunbeams glinted on the telescopic sights of a high power rifle. Across the way was a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi, upon which Benito Mussolini would soon appear. Vast Fascist crowds swarmed in the street, eager to catch the words of their Duce's Armistice Day address. With a baleful flash of satisfaction, the man with the rifle trained its sights still more accurately, and waited...
...device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return to the strings a large part...
...wall of the stoop reveals a grape-vine trellis in the yard, with the Catskills beyond. A broad open door at right and back of the room shows a path leading off to the right. The right hand wall is broken by a short broad window upon the lowered shutter of which the farmer's wife suns her milk palls. Through this window appears the stone wall of a kitchen house. Under the window is a long bench, and an old fashioned clock stands on a shelf between the window and the proscenium...
...Auto Graflex, in splendid condition, equipped with 15A I. C. Zeiss Tessar lens, $100; one 4x5 Goerz Folding Reflex Camera equipped with 6 1-2" Goerz Celor lens, speed F 4.8, original cost $170, our price $90; one 3A Kodak, equip-with 2B Zeiss Tessar F 6.3 and Volute shutter, $45; one 3A Kodak, equipped with Tessar F 6.3 lens and compound shutter, $50; one 3A Kodak, equipped with Voigtlander Dynar F 6 Anastigmat and Koilos shutter, speeds from 1 to 1-300 of a second, $40; one 3A Kodak, fitted with 6 1-2" Goerz Dagor...