Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Religion," he said, "is not primarily a matter of beliefs but a blend of aesthetic and moral attitudes." His opponent claimed that these "attitudes" could not exist without beliefs...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
...most Business School men can squeeze in time for other things besides discussions of case problems. Ex-servicemen, one-time fraternity presidents, and all the other varied types which make up the student body blend into a group that takes advantage of 12:30 a.m. weekend room permission, and keeps weekly Chase Hall "set-ups" as well as occasional formal dances on a continuing basis...
...instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames on a strip of movie film. Pictures or elements of pictures in the primary colors will blend too, giving a scene in reasonably natural colors...
...Blue light from the blue tube is reflected by the blue-reflecting mirror, but passes through the red-reflecting mirror to the eye. Green light from the green tube is not reflected at all. It reaches the eye direct. The viewer sees the three pictures superimposed so that they blend to form a full-color picture...