Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both the RCA-Victor and Farnsworth television systems, unquestioned leaders in this science which shows no serious signs yet of becoming an industry, the pictures are electronically scanned from top to bottom in a series of close-packed horizontal lines. The greater the number of lines, the clearer the picture. Last week RCA-Victor announced it was upping its "definition" from 343 lines to 441. This means that 30% clearer images can be had on a screen the same size as before, or that pictures of the same clarity as before can be had on a screen 30% larger...
...when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could be watched. Without voice or closeups the players had to resort to violent pantomime, grimacing, brow puckering, and the frightened clutch at throat or bosom...
...Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed in every bar an uncanny knowledge of each instrument's value. Emotional people, who like music to conjure pictures for them, protested that he was incomprehensible. Stravinsky replied that he was "objective...
...penalizing undistributed earnings. Chrysler Corp. was whooped to a new high since 1929 ($112 per share) on talk of fatter payments at the next dividend meeting. But while the tax law would evidently tend to liberalize dividend policies, its long-range effect upon stock prices was no clearer than the law itself. The prime factor in stock prices remains earnings, not dividends...
...compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same plan but limited to 450 links...