Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight had surprisingly good voices. Young William Horne's was light but it had an engaging, personal quality that made the judges beam. One high note cracked. Mr. Neuer asked for lenience. The aspirants, he said, were nervous. "Sure!" shouted the kindly mastersingers, "we've been there ourselves...
...considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time to munch the crumbs later. JUDAS...
...Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice. An interpreter, his hands flickering continuously in the beam of light, translated at top speed. Across the screen flew scenes from the Passion Play. When he uttered a guttural German name...
...flashlight beam danced on the snow as an excited farmer floundered toward the sound of a crash in his field near Petersburg, Ill. Etched out in the dark he found the wreckage half buried in snow, the four men all dead...
...closest known approximation of the human eye (TIME, July 10). Designed for television, the device was called the iconoscope. On 20 square inches of mica were 3,000,000 dots of photosensitive material. Light falling on the mica set up an electromagnetic tension which was discharged by an electron beam. The changing pattern of this discharge could be transmitted by radio. At the receiving end the image was reproduced on a fluorescent screen by a reversal of the iconoscope's operating principle...