Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone did not. R. C. A., photophone's parent corporation, sought such...
...same time, however, it cannot be denied that there are many practical considerations to be weighed. It is a question if the lack of experience consequent upon assuming more responsibility a year early will be made up in even the best advice. Then again the process might be found to be merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, overworking the junior for the sake of saving the senior. There is left, then the obvious question as to whether such a policy could be effective on a wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however...
...intend to vote for Mr. Hoover, although I disagree with his views about Prohibition. I think the country will come to a more intelligent way of dealing with that subject than is contained in the present laws, but that will probably be a slow process, and in the meantime the hard task of carrying on our free government with all its many difficulties and dangers must be performed by us. We need the very best man possible to be the head of that business...
...years its status has been doubtful, and heretofore zoning regulations have effectively prevented the erection of any building such as is now contemplated. If they are overthrown in this Instance, a precedent will be set which will expose a large district adjoining the college to commercial development. Such a process of absorption of the residential areas of a growing city by the commercial is an old story, but there still remain in Cambridge many alternate regions for such a move; and it is to be hoped that the Board of Appeals, by whom the issue will be decided, will...
...development. That development has brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...