Word: finches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, John Finch, professor of English at Dartmouth, was designated executive secretary of Seminar activities. Acceptance of the appointment is contingent, however, on Dartmouth's granting a two-year leave-of-absence...
...only eleven experimental stations will be affected immediately. In Manhattan, faxtation WGHF announced that it was getting ready to broadcast four tabloid pages of text and pictures four times daily. In Passaic, N.J., Finch Telecommunications, Inc. announced that it is already manufacturing 100 transmitters for FM stations, 5,000 colorfax* recorders, which may be plugged into any FM radio. The transmitters will be on the market this week, the recorders (priced between $100 and $150) in two or three months...
...inventor, WGHF's W. G. H. Finch, claims the attachment will reproduce newspapers in either black & white, or full color, on untreated paper...
Facsimile had been a long time coming. Among others, Inventors John V. L. Hogan and William G. H. Finch, who have rival systems, have worked on it for 20 years. In the 1930s, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Columbus Dispatch and other dailies experimented with it, but reproduction was slow and the carbon-paper product didn't seem to have a future. The war interrupted research; in 1944, eight radio stations and 17 newspapers, linked as Broadcasters Faximile Analysis, matched $250,000 of Hogan's money to get it going again...
...niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose...