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...elephant folio," sized three feet by two feet, is one of the largest books ever issued. Rated by many as the world's most beautiful ornithology, it contains hundreds of colored engravings of birds in their habitats, and is believed to be the first attempt to portray birds in natural poses...
Unassuming, Fuller concluded with the statement that he didn't write to portray life or for the pure love of creating. "I'm interested in the life of a writer . . . no time-clocks...
Grant said that production would start March 16. He and his assistants will try to portray as many of the various activities in the settlement houses as possible. However, the cinema will include many scenes from Phillips Brooks House itself, such as views of the work of the Foreign Students, Gradfell, Freshman, and Speakers Committees...
...supposed to portray a child s imaginings of his own adventures with a band of opéra bouffe robbers. The boy grinds a hurdy-gurdy drawn by a mule while his mother and grandfather sing. When the robbers hide a stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They...
...diaphragm, abnormal action within the thorax, motions of joints. The relative thickness of the abdomen makes photographing the movements of its organs less satisfactory. Two seconds is too brief to get a good picture of the complete peristaltic wave of the stomach. But two seconds is enough to portray an ulcer in the fluctuating stomach or in the fluctuating duodenum...