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Moving pictures may be made through a similar screen. But the cameras must be run much faster than they now are. There must be many cameras focused on the same scene, and many projecting machines throwing the images on the screen. Screens must contain minute ridged reflecting and refracting elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stereoscopy | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Quite frankly the Vagabond has never cared deeply for Wordsworth. He exhibits, in his poetry, too frank an interest in the exact size of a newly dug grave, or the precise circumference of a huntsman's swollen ankle. But he has compensated for this rather crass precision by developing an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

A new business policy intended to give the candidates a thorough knowledge of the business structure of the Pierian Sodality has been instituted. Efficiency, precision and speed in detailed tasks are emphasized under this policy to allow the candidates adequate time to pursue their studies.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOMORROW MARKS OPENING OF THE PIERIAN COMPETITION | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

The story relates the adventures of a famed actress (Muriel Kirkland of Strictly Dishonorable and The Greeks Had a Word for It) who is pursued by the richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

In his career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone At Large | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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