Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school-for correctness of lead was easily checked from the picture. I doubt if such a camera was ever used at the front. The pictures were about 1¾"x 2¼" in size...
...August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick of the Japanese maneuvers as a possible target for simulated attack. Japanese warships will be operating on the direct route between Manila and Honolulu. Vice Admiral Osumi tried to soothe U. S. alarm at such a prospect...
...bound by a 1925 resolution of his organization which "held that in the public interest it was advisable and wise to permit the broadcast of news . . . Presidential elections specifically." In seven subsequent annual meetings that resolution had been left upon the books. Accordingly Manager Cooper supplied his reports, became target for a volley of protests from outraged AP members...
...President's Detroit speech was his long and familiar recital of his battles with Depression. As at Des Moines and Cleveland, he made the Democratic House and its legislative record his principal target...
Walter Pach does not lack courage. The complacency of academic painters and museum directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly...