Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspect of your snapshot was hidden behind the general impression that all emergency facilities are available to the community as are the fire and police services-with no direct charge for the service. The cost to nonprofit hospitals of maintaining the 24-hour emergency service is [high]. Payment for the service is only token, the income falling far below the minimum costs...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
Other members scowled. This, they said, was just what could be expected from an M.P. who had prepared for politics by writing musical comedies, novels (The Water Gipsies, Holy Deadlock) and humorous essays for Punch. But no one is likely to scowl at Independent Member, a sprightly, informal snapshot of the Mother of Parliaments with her hair down and her slip showing...
...Snapshot Albums. We had been on patrol since dawn. It would be dark before we got home. We had two missions -to plot weather and spot ships. There's nothing to do about the shipping, of course, except to take pictures. But some day the snapshot albums showing ships which carried goods to unfriendly ports while Americans were dying in Korea may prove interesting. You could hope so, anyhow...
...Photography may do better when the Palomar telescope takes motion pictures of Mars at the next favorable apposition, in 1956. The 200-in. mirror gathers so much light that it can take a snapshot of Mars in a very brief exposure. A continuous strip of such pictures should catch the planet at instants when its image is not being jiggled by atmospheric irregularities...