Word: coin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across a photographic plate in a succession of parallel adjacent lines, the strength of the light varying with the strength of incoming radio signals?a process much like that used by grandmothers in producing the image of a penny by blacking with their pencils a paper pressed over a coin. Result: wireless photography. Prophecies: the auditor of a radio account of a baseball game, or of an inaugural address, or of a scouting aviator's running report, would some day see the players, the President, the battle by radio cinema.?C. Francis Jenkins, Washington...
...next Prophezzor also a disciple of Clio denied the first outright: "My aim is to get these young men to view the world in the large. I train them to follow trends, to trace movements, to see universals. If you hold a coin near enough to your eye, it will blot out the sun. Perspective is the word Perspective...
...recent discovery of a coin dated 1742, the date of erection of Holden Chapel, and of several relies of the eighteenth century near the new Holden dormitories, has directed interest to the remarkable history of the chapel. During 183 years it has served in almost every capacity possible to a building...
...society. The wiser men pass these young beggars scornfully by, push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme annoyance to the residents of Mount Auburn Street, but, far more important, it is laying the foundations of shiftlessness in the minds of the boys...
...faced individual who threw a coin...