Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary silver emulsion film cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...
Four days later the Greater St. Louis unexpectedly landed after 647 hr. 28 min. 30 sec., before a desultory crowd of 800. Explained the flyers: "A cracked crank case." Observed Manager Pickens: "Not enough money. They'd have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose...
British officials have become alarmed in recent months over the persistently impartial tone of press and public opinion in the U. S. as India's Nationalist troubles continue. Greatly they grieved for "gross inaccuracies, obvious misinterpretations" in U. S. news stories.* Dr. Thompson's little pamphlet, issued last week was one of Britain's first overt efforts to arouse sympathy for England's cause in India...
Although C. I. T. is not as large as General Motors Acceptance Co., its gross is greater than any independent company's. To obtain this it is led into many fields. Thus at one time its files contained contracts on the printing equipment of 25 metropolitan newspapers, four Great Lakes steamers, plus the usual amount of soda fountains, scows, refrigerators, machinery. At present retail domestic automobile notes form the largest single item (29.54%) among C. I. T.'s receivables. Last December, however, this business formed 36.71% of the whole. The reduction did not occur because of any question...
Abstemious Ramsay MacDonald demanded proofs, names. They were not forthcoming. The House, greatly relieved, voted 304 to 13 that Elijah Sandham, member for Kirkdale, Liverpool, had been "guilty of a breach of privilege and a gross libel upon the House," merited an official censure...