Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio is ideal for transmitting music, but the Council soon realized that when a radio talks it can easily become gabby. Without exhibits, or at least a speaker's face to look at, a listener soon becomes restless--especially if he is not versed in the subject under discussion. And subjects which require demonstration, such as dancing and art, often fall a trifle flat. So when the Federal Communications Commission lifted its famous TV freeze in 1951, WGBH immediately spoke for the educational channel assigned to Boston...
Parents of the promising will answer six pages of confidential questions, e.g., on pedigrees, education and other offspring. In the ideal future, the society hopes, parents of the very best pupils will be encouraged to have more of the same, and will get special government grants. On persuading bright boys to marry the right, bright girls, the society is wisely noncommittal: "We hope such pupils will make promising families of their own some...
...space could be used for beauty, instead of for a specific function. A lot of Cambridge people haven't seen the World Tree, tucked away where it is in the Graduate Center, and we can't think of a better place for it than in the Square. But the ideal solution would be to make a giant rotary out of the whole area. With a challenge like that--Mystic River Bridge signs at three of the six or so exits--even the police wouldn't have time to loiter, and the present city government would almost certainly be re-elected...
...fortnight ago the first Viscount of a 22-plane order for Trans-Canada Airlines flew across the Atlantic to Montreal. Last week another new turboprop took off for the other end of the world, one of a six-plane order for Trans-Australia Airlines which the company finds ideal for its needs...
...prizes that has dangled just out of reach of the scientists is a method of amplifying light: i.e., increasing the brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...