Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year later the Allied peacemakers, in the Treaty of St. Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with...
...strong in most of them, expressed polite interest but no overwhelming enthusiasm. C. In Venice, the U. S. exhibition of 63 paintings and no prints, including "old masters" like Winslow Homer and moderns like John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial. C. In Paris, Manhattan...
...television's irksomely narrow dimensions were stretched last week in England. A group of independent radio engineers established a new distance record for reliable picture reception. Others began to install a 6 ft. by 5 ft. cinema screen for public projection of larger size television pictures. English home set screens are 24 in. by 20, or smaller...
...experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen...
...freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...