Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
...hand, explained Dr. Brailsford, is "the skeleton's calling card." It can be held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...
...story received maximum attention. All of the newspapers published either full translations of it, or excerpts from it, or commented upon it. La Estrella de Nicaragua (see cut) ran TIME'S cover on Page One, together with Bob Chapin's map (Somoza on the Spot) and a photograph of the Dictator and some cohorts reading the issue...
...Troilus & Cressida." The ad was submitted to several local college newspapers. Reaction from the Boston College "Heights" was immediate. Where most editors raised their eyebrows, Charles Cullen, Business Editor of the Jesuit College's Weekly, raised the bars. He refused to print the ad unless the photograph was amputated...
...officials immediately with drow the picture from the ad. Jerry Kilty '50, president of the HTW, stated that the photograph of Miss Farrand was a portrait of her as she will appear in the role of Cressida. "It is on all the posters...