Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...
...UNION OFFICER IN THE RECONSTRUCTION (211pp.)-John William De Forest; edited by James H. Croushore and David M. Potter - Yale University...
...Forest Hills...
...cathedral, California-style. Its cost, announced last week, was unexpectedly modest ($1,100,000). Other features were characteristically impressive. Unique item: a 195-ft.-long painting of Calvary by Polish Artist Jan Styka, said to contain 5,000 figures. Location: the Hollywood-serving, super de luxe convertible graveyard, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park (where it will replace the "Tower of Legends," a landmark since 1924). Denomination: none...
Pich's nearest neighbor, Trapper George Farrel, miles away in the frozen forest, heard no shots. But Parrel's huskies sensed something wrong and grew restless, soon were howling. Farrel broke camp, set out for Pich's cabin. After struggling through a blizzard he got there in time to hear Pich gasp out his story before he died. Outside, Farrel found the bodies of Pich's huskies. To save them from starving, Pich had shot them...