Word: focalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army's Signal Service. Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Company, favors the creation of a super-radio broadcasting system under an interstate radio commission with broad powers. Six or more high-powered stations strategically located at focal points would be interconnected by wire or radio "pick-ups." In addition local stations would serve the various communities with material of local interest. The Westinghouse interests now control the nearest .approach to such a system. Their central broadcasting station, KDKA, at East Pittsburgh, Pa., is itself the most powerful...
Manhattan Island was the focal point of baseball interest all over the world. Fanatics overflowed the city's hotels to see the " Yankees " (American League champions) play the " Giants" (National League champions) for what is generally conceded to be the championship of the planet in this sport. Four out of seven games were to decide the winner...
...Director of its Sproul Observatory. It will be stationed at Yerbaniz, Mexico. Other members: Profs. E. W. Merriott and W. E. Wright, of Swathmore; Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Dinsmore Alter, University of Kansas. They will take a 65-foot focal length telescope camera, the largest ever used for this work...
...specially constructed cameras were made,--the diameter of the lens being five inches and the focal length 15 feet. These cameras had refracting lenses and were pointed directly at the point in the sky where the eclipse would occur. This avoided any distortions due to expanding and contracting mirrors. The photographic plates were of plate glass and were 17 inches square. The temperate climate of Australia further facilitated matters...
...there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre, as one expected, the Luka and the Nastya are but parts in a large and wonderful cast. In the American theatre and even in the Yiddish Art Theatre, the tendency was to make them focal, to play for the star. A perfect cast in almost every case was that of Saturday afternoon. Ivan Lasareff as the actor, Giorgi Burdzhaloff as Kostilyoff, Vera Pashennaya as his wife, and Nina Litovtseva as Anna created unforgetably fine characterizations. The Pepel of Peter Baksheieff, while it was exceptional...