Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last October, clear skies have permitted eleven observing nights. An average of ninety to a hundred visitors attended each program, hearing an hour taik by an astronomer and taking turns at the three visual telescopes of the Observatory during a two hour pehiod...
...VISUAL record of what happens when a blade of wheat grows has been made in this remarkable series of photographs taken by O. T. Bennett, an associate in plant breeding at, the University, of Illionois...
...have the U. S. people had access, except through occasional formal photographs, to the upper floors of the official home which they provide for their President. This week THE MARCH OF TIME exhibits upon the nation's movie screens a cinema sequence describing the Presidency in intimate visual detail, including many shots of the White House upstairs as it now looks during the occupancy of the Franklin D. Roosevelts. For the first time since Lincoln, the public can look out through the front portico from the upper hall, out to the Monument from the President's Study, around...
...completely, give him small, frequent doses of the drug used in twilight sleep, scopolamine hydrobromide. After the third or fourth dose of scopolamine, wrote they, "the patient develops a mild, low mumbling delirium. He is quite busy, and often amused, by figments of his imagination and the occasional visual hallucinations of a not unpleasant variety-picking at imaginary insects on the bed and the like. He cooperates very well, obeys commands promptly and partakes freely of food and drink, and the enteric and urinary elimination is good...
...twentieth-century medium. "Gulliver Mickey", for example, has happily seized upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break...