Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic German photographer named Oskar Barnack designed for his own use a camera small enough to slip easily into a pocket, yet as accurate as any hulking news camera made. It used cinema film. Nothing happened till the War was over, then manufacture started under the trade name of Leica. Since then Photographer Barnack's pocket camera has become one of the best known precision cameras in the world. With the special lenses that have been ground to fit in, the Leica (and approximately six similar miniature cameras of rival manufacturers) has profoundly affected the entire field of photography...
...happened to get into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class deck, while another is the bitter challenege of a young aristocrat whom the depression forcs from college...
...Schwab has been known for little else than his optimism. His record for public cheerfulness was unbroken until last month when the 73-yearold steelmaster stepped off shipboard, gloomily observing that U. S. Business seemed to be "marking time." Last week he half-apologized for that slip, saying: "My words may have conveyed a lack of enthusiasm but my heart and my mind contain optimism and enthusiasm which will never change. Don't worry. We're going to have good business again...
...Since then, however, has come a distinct change of opinion among G. O. Partisans. President Roosevelt might be unbeatable by himself but, if a third party of disgruntled Leftwingers under Senator Long or someone like him should enter the field, the Republican nominee might have a bare chance to slip through to success. Some such idea was definitely in the air last week as Republicans began to stir out of their long lethargy and behave like Presidential candidates. Some stirrings...
Like nearly everyone else, Lilo Linke was morally affected by the insanity of inflation. She stole books, sold them, began to slip towards the maelstrom of Berlin's delirious night life. What saved her was the Youth Movement. Into this earnestly idealistic confraternity Lilo Linke threw herself with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader...