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...LIFE or EMERSON?Van Wyck Brooks?Button...
...time since the glorious American clipper ship era has the nation displayed such a keen interest in its ship activities," said President Hoover as he pushed a White House button which launched the Grace Line's 18,000-ton Santa Rosa at Kearny...
...possibilities of amateur as opposed to professional photography, he devoted himself to making cameras simple, handy, foolproof. The first Kodak appeared in 1888, contained film for 100 pictures which, when taken, were sent back (camera & all) to the Kodak factory for development. Hence the famed slogan: "You press the button. We do the rest." The development of a flexible, transparent photographic film in 1889 coincided with Thomas Alva Edison's early cinema experiments. Edison bought $2.50 worth of Eastman film, turned to an assistant and said: "That's it [the film]?now work like hell [on the camera...
...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...
...route, they must submit to the severest treatment: rapid-fire succession of take-offs & landings, continued splashings of salt water. On the eastbay the new line operates from San Francisco Bay. Airdrome at the edge of Alameda. On the San Francisco side it inherits the circular wooden "landing button" at a pier just north of the clock-towered Ferry Building. The Varney schedule calls for 13 round trips daily. Fare...