Word: technician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one exception all the prints were non-instantaneous photographs of static subjects. They made it clear that for a half century Stieglitz has been a superb camera technician and artist, scornful of trickery and flash. The 1889 experiment with sunlight seeping through the Venetian blinds in Paula (see cut) was no less experimental, no less successful than Car 2F 77-77 (1935), where a house and trees are seen mirrored in the shining surface of an automobile...
...recently announced Army Institute provides self-teaching, correspondence courses in a wide variety of subjects, worked out by skilled educators, as well as selected extension courses offered by some 80 approved colleges. In addition educational opportunities are offered in technician, officer candidate, and officer specialist schools. These range from a four week's course in radio communication to a twelve months' course in Japanese...
West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...
...Under the restrictions, a 19-year-old radio technician with only six months in the Army would, for example, be left behind when his unit went abroad (possibly to a spot remote from the enemy). If the Army did not need him in another radio unit just then, his talents would be wasted...
...comforting hum of power was heard last night in the spacious quarters of the Crimson Network as the master technician threw the switch which pours Cambridge current into the powerful transmitters broadcasting nightly to the seven Houses. A continued blackout of the transmitting facilities caused well informed Network circles to voice dark hints of sabotage by the newly established station...