Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean up this wing of its house if it expects film censorship to grow...
Campbell last night called the Winthrop House turn-out "very encouraging," and added, "The Council is now back on its feet. Considering its enlarged postwar scope, with good men elected, it will be in the strongest position it has ever enjoyed...
Last week in Manhattan Sir Robert showed off his latest model. Installed on the bridge of the great Queen Elizabeth, it makes wartime radar look like a dim-eyed has-been. When the Elizabeth comes up the Narrows, the "scope" shows a highly detailed map, with buildings, docks, the speedway along the Brooklyn shore. Ships lying at anchor are well-defined shapes, not mere blobs. As the big ship approaches her berth, the scope shows the dock, the ferries, even the small tugs under the Elizabeth's bows...
...Atlantic, the scope is generally blank except for "clutter" from nearby waves. The captain can order full speed through the soupiest weather. Obstacles are clearly visible long before they are dangerous...
...back of Sir Robert's head: a "radar telescope" which will magnify on its scope any object of interest within the range of the beam. The observer at night or in fog can "tune in" a distant speck for better examination...