Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the image formed by the lens is a, moving one, the film must move in stept with it. In the Perkin-Elmer camera, the film is 18 inches wide and is carried in reels weighing 400 Ibs. Every time the prism makes its sweep, about ten feet of film race past the slit where the image forms. A complicated mechanism makes the film move slightly slantwise during part of its rush. This is designed to compensate for the forward motion of the airplane and keep the image from "drifting" on the film...
Crimson swimming teams should both come through this afternoon's meets still undefeated, but the varsity will have a hard time preserving its almost complete sweep of first places in its 4 p.m. contest at Springfield...
...Alpe-d'Huez, France, the German four-man bobsled team over the U.S and Switzerland, setting a course record of 1 min. 11.65 sec. and making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In Seattle, Dick Button, 21, world figure-skating champion, for his sixth consecutive national title. ¶In Boston, Miler Don Gehrmann, for his sixth straight victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt, in the track-record time...
Setting out to sweep all this away, Minister Díaz, a onetime journalist, earned himself a mocking nickname from the press: Lomberto el Terrible. Thundered Lomberto, undeterred: "If the criminal elements and the women victims they live off don't get out, I'll cut off their light and water, pack their furniture off to a city warehouse and jail any stragglers. We'll show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled...
...Technicolor photography that lent itself to little intercutting of real combat footage, Director Lewis Milestone has staged his battle scenes with jarring realism and vigor. By borrowing the brilliant camera technique of his own 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, he has filmed them with sweep, surprise and rhythm...