Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home is concerned. The present trend toward decentralization,--the urban river running backwards--suggests that the graduate think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving the student on the threshold of life to grope for his niche, they should point out the advantages of applying his training in his own community. It is time for a new Horace Greeley to rise and shout...
...picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...which extend from about 30 to 150 miles above earth--well beyond man's reach-- is possible because the electric character of these blankets is such that they reflect radio waves back to earth. It is this reflection which makes it possible to send radio messages beyond the optical horizon, around the curve of the earth...
...penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize play, You Can't Take It With...
...built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered civilization," "the ideal and practice of human freedom," "our responsibilities to the future of our race...