Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance: Television, requiring bulky and expensive apparatus, does not yet loom as a standard addition to the home telephone. But theatre audiences, in the not too distant future, may see super newsreels of prizefights, launchings, inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis...
...players who fill the uniforms may claim residence at some far-distant point?fans care not whence the home team is recruited, so long as it wins...
...happening, it is my opinion that the United States should recognize the Russian Soviet. All of the great countries of the world except the United States have accepted the Soviet, all have recognized it to be legal and effective and I see no reason why we, a nation far distant from Russia, have any reason not to accept it. On the other hand I think there are several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential market for United States goods. Thus commercially it would benefit us considerably to recognize Russia...
...They are rarely taken at a glance on first acquaintance. The landscape (in a literal sense) unfolds hit by bit, objects take their place in space in the inter space relation within the picture,--the tree in the foreground grows in convincing reality by which we look to the distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing so here within the picture their relation convinces us and the sensation is fundamentally that which is gotten from contact...
This system did not prove as successful as had been hoped however, and has been withdrawn in large eastern centers and schools which offer definite preparation for the College Board Examinations. It will still be available in rural and distant sections of the country, for it is particularly useful in the West and South, where certification is general, and schoolmasters look upon examinations with a good deal of resentment...