Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls on every member. The word of a cadet is unquestioned, and it must be perfect surely. It is a small thing to report oneself for violations of the Honor Code, for any man may unintentionally fail to accomplish some intention, or overstep his bounds. True the punishment is swift and sure. This is the most cold-blooded place for discipline that the Lord created. But, once over the offence is completely forgotten; wiped...
...Argentines, there was no star. All the Argentine mounts were superlatively swift, a little easier to handle than the U. S. ponies, though perhaps that was partly due to the way they were ridden. Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...
Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., arrived last week on the swift Mauretania. Reporters wasted no time in cornering him. Said he: "I have a statement ready. It is six words long. Take it down carefully. 'A singed cat dreads the fire.' That...
...uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded another institution-Corona Mundi (Crown of the World), International Art Center, to take pictures (his own mostly) "directly to the people." New U. S. friends organized for him the Roerich Museum to hold his swift paintings. That museum now has about 750 of his 3,000 works. Other productions are in the Louvre, Luxembourg, Victoria & Albert museums. Finally moneyed friends started to build him a 24-story skyscraper on Riverside Drive. It will be completed next July. On lower floors are picture galleries, an auditorium...
...present O'Grady system, called Natural Color, uses a revolving shutter attachable to any standard size movie camera. The shutter contains a circle of gelatin sheets tinted to allow the seven primary colors† to pass through. As each section or "frame" of the film pauses its swift fraction of a second behind the camera lens** it receives the impression of a single color. Only those parts of the scene that are blue will be photographed through the blue screen; only the yellow scene parts through the yellow screen; etc. The next frame gets another color impression...