Word: depths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimmers started fast by winning five of the first seven events, but the lack of depth on the team prevented the Crimson from taking a commanding lead. With second and third-place finishes in the opening events, the Middies stayed close. Navy swimmers took first place in each of the final individual events the 440 freestyle and the 200-yard breaststroke, and narrowed the margin to 39-40 before the climactic final relay...
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise: In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways...
...together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with He-Man Dustin Farnum. By the time DeMille produced his fifth movie, The Man from Home, in 1914, he was a slick showman. He was experimenting with artificial lighting, using shading to create the illusion of depth. When a wire from Goldwyn complained that exhibitors would pay only half price for a half-lit film, C.B. wired back: IF YOU DON'T KNOW REMBRANDT LIGHTING WHEN YOU SEE IT, DON'T BLAME ME. Goldwyn promptly answered: FOR THAT THE EXHIBITORS WILL PAY DOUBLE...
Like the 21-in. image on the television tube, TV news commentary lacks depth. The big eye can survey, but it runs into trouble when it tries to interpret or explain. Last week, in an unsponsored effort to supply TV news coverage with the rare dimension, the Columbia Broadcasting System introduced a news program designed to examine more than the profile of big events: Behind the News with Howard K. Smith...
...programs (devoted to the U.S. visit of Russia's Anastas Mikoyan and the ascendancy of French President Charles de Gaulle) were not very deep. As usual, television's all-seeing eye dominated the show, and Smith and his associates, for all their worthwhile effort, added little depth to either subject. The screen was still 21 inches across; giving it a new dimension was still a major challenge...