Word: scans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color with Dots. RCA's system, called "dot interlacing," is entirely electronic, needs no spinning disc. In the transmitting camera are three tubes. In front of them is a system of "dichroic mirrors" (see below) which allow each tube to "see" in one color only. All three tubes scan the scene continuously, but an electronic switching device, turning their signals on & off 11.4 million times a second, allows each tube to transmit over the telecasting station only one-third of the time. In this way the "video signals" from all three tubes are strung together like trains made...
...triangular plot of land on which stands an aging building housing a clothing store and an undergraduate magazine; across the street from this structure is a cleaning establishment and another undergraduate publication. These structures effectively block the vision of any driver attempting to see through them to scan the traffic flow of the constantly active corner...
About this time every fall, as Old Blues scan the sports pages for news of Yale's preparations for the Harvard game, the New Haven correspondents for the national wire services set up a five-day wailing...
...offices (in the Constituent Assembly building, at the Foreign Ministry, in his home), will stick to desk work all day, then go through a barrage of social engagements, including dinner, then stay up until the small hours dictating to stenographers and lying in his charpoy (Indian string bed) to scan a day's bundle of news clippings. He drives himself equally hard, and much more spectacularly, when he gets away from offices and desks...
...festival of the bulls is the only art form in which violence, bloodshed and death are palpable and unfeigned. It is the only art in which the artist deals actual death and risks actual death, as if a poet were called upon to scan his lines with his life . . . All arts, even the most abstract, are essentially creations to thrill. To allow man to participate in God's designs at one step removed from the anguish of living them...