Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, stubborn Syngman Rhee, veteran fighter for a free Korea, sat on his terrace overlooking Seoul and waged a war of nerves. His object was unmistakable: to block the armistice as a ruinous compromise...
...real 3-D, the problems are not so much esthetic as technical, scientific and medical. The object of all good stereoscopy is the fulfillment of the 26th Theorem of Euclid's Optics,* which was paraphrased by Poet-Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes back in 1859: "By means of these two different views of an object, the mind, as it were, feels around it and gets an idea of its solidity. We clasp an object with our eyes as with our arms . . . and then we know it to be more than a surface...
...their skill in 2-D photography, the technicians still knew little about stereoscopy. One expert solemnly told Hollywood that the stereocamera sees things just as human eyes do because its openings are fixed four inches apart-"just as human eyes are"-and its lenses converge on the object of attention. Hollywood accepted this statement literally...
...early movies showed light and shade. Human eyes see a great deal more: they are sensitive to color, and are also rangefinders. When both eyes look at the same object, they "toe in" slightly. The brain measures the converging angle, and from it, estimates the object's distance...
Last week, rushing up & down a 110-yard field at Annapolis with rough & tumble abandon, the men of Army and Navy were on the warpath again. Object of the game: to hurl a 5-oz. India rubber ball into a 6-ft.-square net, using a webbed hickory stick as a combination scoop and sling. If a member of one of the ten-man teams happened to clobber a rival with a stick, or send him sprawling on his face, it was all part of the game. The stakes of honor were considerable, involving not only the traditional Army-Navy...