Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ejaculated before reporters: "Thank God, this isn't British justice. In England a person is not guilty until proved guilty. Here he is guilty whether he is innocent...
...Harvard and Radcliffe will give a dance tomorrow night from 8 to 12 o'clock at Agassiz House, Radcliffe. Men in all the Graduate Schools of the University are cordially invited. Dick Bowers and his Venice-Lido Orchestra will furnish the music. Admission will be seventy-five cents a person...
...little Jewish household and admired the skill of Rudolph Schildekraut in the leading part. Mr. Schildekraut's work was always effective, but the direction is not equal to the task of stressing one character. We are thinking now of "The Last Laugh" in which everything was subordinated to the person of Emile Jannings in the guise of an old wash-room attendant. Director Murnan by keeping him continually, before the camera game him a chance to reach the hearts of his audiences. American direction with the same opportunity buried Mr. Schildekraut in a pile of uninteresting detail...
...London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense speed, through lenses in a revolving disk. Using ordinary methods to broadcast the words of people moving before the televisor lenses, it was found that sight and sound synchronized perfectly at the receiving...
...addition to dispensing stateliness of presence, ring of voice, ability to cerebrate while vertical, and modern substitutes for the Demosthenic pebble, Dr. Covington studies the vocabulation of his charges. He estimates that the average educated person has a nodding acquaintance* with 18,000 English words, or possibly twice that number. It is very difficult to be exact. Ten years ago he took in hand a list of 100 words that should be recognized by this hypothetical person, and administered it to his students year after year. The students had to use each word in a sentence, and brilliant examples would...