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...Bremen wave length, Lord Haw-Haw denounced Bolshevism-and tried it again in Hamburg. The words were indistinct ; Lord Haw-Haw was patently stewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sign-Off | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Congressional chin rested in a Congressional palm, when Michigan's veteran John D. Dingell got the floor to make a brief speech on another subject. He spoke of "the rising tide of resentment and criticism among veterans of World War II because of the issuance of an indistinct, cheap, and unworthy discharge button. . ." Afterwards the debate on manpower went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Talk | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...three-dimensional psychological portrait of Albert Lory not only has many indistinct patches, it also seems to belong in a French novel rather than on the screen. This miscarriage of form is not helped by hackneyed studio settings and self-conscious photography - audiences may feel that Hamlet and Hamlet's descendants were not meant for Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...ignore House loyalties, the House dignitaries have preferred isolationism to cooperation. The original proposals for inter-House integration if carried out efficiently could have helped Freshmen to make friends among their own class and would have halted the rapidly growing segregation which is breaking classes and ages into an indistinct, confused muddle from which only further dislocation can come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Now | 7/22/1942 | See Source »

...microphone is that only the orchestra records well, while the vocal parts are always confused and unclear. The soloists sound as though coming out of a distant fog, and are often completely drowned out by the orchestra. The chorus similarly, when it sings softly, becomes only an indistinct blur; when it opens up the stops, it creates a great huge blaze of speaker-shattering noise. All this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

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