Word: broadcastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller Sr.: "Last week my grandson,* Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a freshman at Dartmouth College, entered the public eye. With an insolence rare among freshmen, he and his classmate, John French Jr., flayed the fraternity system at Dartmouth. Their letter, which was broadcast by the Associated Press, said in part: The fraternities devote too much time to the task of perpetuating themselves . . . and are in danger of collapsing through pursuit of a false goal...
...Before Thursday's experiment, of course, stationary pictures were broadcast for long distances, but this is the first time that moving pictures, of moving objects, have been seen over the wires. Television consists in rapidly transmitting still pictures, in speeding up the picture at least 100 times faster than would be necessary to transmit a stationary object or picture. The picture is produced by the passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means...
Radio Hypnosis is the latest attempt of man through space. Commenting on the recent experiment in hypnosis by radio broadcast conducted in Springfield and Boston by WBZ, Dr. H. A. Murray, of the Psychology department, has written the following article for the CRIMSON...
From WGY, Schenectady, N. Y., at 10:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, each Thursday night are broadcast fifteen questions based on news of the week and specially prepared for WGY by TIME. Also are broadcast the fifteen answers. The U. S. public is invited to "play the game"-i. e. to cry out the correct answers before the broadcaster does. There follow comments from members of the U. S. public...
...capacity of feature writer. One of his first offerings was a lengthy autobiographical piece blaming Mr. Vanderbilt Sr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt for their son's failure. They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost to operate her. At the head of a column in his admittedly vulgar N. Y. Mirror, Publisher Hearst was pleased to print young...