Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures Capa liked best were those that told the "whole story," like his photo of an American machine gunner the instant he was killed, or his pictures of half-drowned G.I.s crawling through the heavy surf toward the Normandy beaches. Photographer Capa was no master technician; under battle conditions his lighting and his focus were often faulty. He got his best pictures by knowing and understanding war, and by staying close to it. "If your pictures aren't good," he was fond of saying, "you aren't close enough." The late Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt once said...
...reportedly insisted, promising to pay them overtime. The movers agreed, but after moving it about half way they told Schine that even if they got it up there that night he would not be able to play it since it would need to be installed by a technician. Incensed, so the story goes, Schine rushed to his room, got on the phone, called Mr. Ansley in Trenton, and told him that he wanted a technician immediately. After some argument, Ansley agreed and a technician grabbed a plane, installed the piano, and flew back again. With the piano installed, Schine...
...Technician crew countered the Crimson bid by raising its stroke to around 37 and slipped across the line a scant six feet ahead. M.I.T.'s winning time was 6:50.6; Harvard finished in 6:51 and Dartmouth...
M.I.T. suffers from want of experience and will be in the hands of a varsity stroke who is stroking the first race of his life. Technician coach Jim MacMillan, in a pessimistic tone, comments: "They have some potential, but it'll take longer than Saturday to bring it out of them...
...great virtues of the Penn test are its simplicity and speed. Any competent doctor or technician can be trained in a couple of weeks to perform it accurately...