Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplished a great deal in science. In 1932 he snapped the first picture of a positive electron. For this discovery he won the highest honor Science can bestow, a Nobel Prize. His pioneer positive electron photograph has become historic. In the Physical Review last week, Prizeman Anderson printed a snapshot of another kind of particle which may also become historic...
...major part of the book is given over to Morgan's career. This, with its hard, brisk sea-scenes, its sudden shocks of death, is uniformly convincing. Interspersed in the chronicle, however, are snapshot glimpses of life on its various planes on the Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most...
...funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed: "The Church has undoubtedly lost much of its onetime prestige in metropolitan centres in which discouraged churchmen have chosen to 'let George do it,' and by 'George' we mean snapshot Federations, semi-scientific social welfare groups and politicians...
With all U. S. picture agencies scouring their files for Early Simpsoniana, there came to light a snapshot showing that in 1912 in Baltimore the present Mrs. Simpson wore a monocle. In Omaha and Minneapolis scattered distant cousins of Wallis Warfield Simpson were routed out by reporters who found them unanimous in the opinion that "King Edward would be lucky to get one of the Warfields of Maryland," and that, "If you ask me, I think Wallis would make a good Queen...
...Washington last week $10,000, furnished by Eastman Kodak Co., was distributed among finalists in the second annual Newspaper National Snapshot Awards. This is a contest for amateur photographers who have already won prizes in preliminary newspaper contests. Judges of preliminary contests pored over more than 500,000 photographs, few of which were so hastily executed as to merit the name of "snapshots," before the 368 finalists were hung on the walls of the National Geographic Society's Hall of Explorers...