Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automatically with a catalogue of facts, and which will be marked by fair rules would learn much by looking at the methods of the History and Economics departments. In Economics A, for example, two or three meetings of the twenty odd instructors are held to work out questions and rough answers. They are especially concerned with the kind of answer they will get from the student and form their questions on this basis. The department rightfully prides itself on the "quality" type of question, which gives the able student a chance to write an original answer and to show...
Latest radio dispatches last night revealed that Richard W. Heurtley, Jr., bold adventurer of the Class of 1940, had been sighted by a Coast Guard cutter paddling his canoe in the rough waters off Rocky Point in the Long Island Sound...
...rough control over current, which electricians were able to exercise through changing the potentials on the positive and negative terminals of the original tubes, was rendered extremely sensitive and intricate with the addition, by Dr. Lee De Forest, of an independently charged grid of wire between the heated filament and the positively charged plate...
...take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...
Once approved in outline by the story staff (Disney is sometimes outvoted), the story is adapted into sequences, scenes, shots, and the main action illustrated by some of this staff with a series of rough sketches. A director is then assigned to conduct the picture through to its conclusion. He and subordinate music, art, sound-effects and dialogue directors, look over the sketches, decide on the timing. In a typical Disney cartoon, the action and sound move according to an intricate schedule in which the frames of the film are synchronized with the musical beat or sound effects...