Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum. For example, the violins are little affected; but percussion instruments are considerably more realistic. The restoration of high overtones results in improved differentiation of instruments as the fabric of tone takes on a more three-dimensional quality. The speaking voice is slightly more natural. From this you will gather that Wide Range has not brought about any very startling improvement in the ordinary dialogue film, but that it has considerably increased the effectiveness of music...
...inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop. White airship fabric draped the dais, where sat Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, president of the court...
Again the storm dashed the great ship downward, and this time clawed away a section of her belly fabric and part of her rudder. Again ballast was dumped; but the ship did not rise. Down, down she went-CRASH-upon the surface of the writhing sea. For a brief moment the 110-ton hulk floated while its buoyant helium hissed away into the gale. Then the pounding waves wrenched it to bits. Here and there, by the occasional brilliance of the lightning flashes, a witness could have discerned men of the Akron flailing about in the water...
...current, superficial Japanese prosperity is basically unsound. With Manchuria still full of Chinese bandit-soldiers who are still full of fight, the Empire stands committed to further stupendous military expenditures, consequent further inflation of the yen and the most strenuous testing in 1933 of Japan's whole fabric, economic, fiscal, political...
Violet Kemble Cooper bustles through the delicate, amusing fabric of the piece with great success. The Mad Hopes warrants a visit if only to hear her gravely remark over a telephone: "Shakespeare? -yes-yes-very talented...