Word: screen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he was wrecked off Malaga. Between the ages of 23 and 26, while writing ads, peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers not to be reminded of them. Payment Deferred, his grim study in murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately...
Last fall thirty-two Freshmen went to the movies and learned how to read. The Freshmen in this case were volunteer students, and the movies, rapidly moving words and phrases projected on a screen. Gaping eyes were taught to scan the printed page, moving quickly over the lines and making fewer stops than had been their habit. The results gained by the "remedial reading class" were immensely significant despite the justly cautious attitude of the directors of the experiment, for not only did the Guinea Pigs increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed...
...General Electric X-Ray Corp. arranged to borrow him so that he could be fluoroscoped full length for the edification of visitors to the New York World's Fair. X-rays will penetrate the wrappings and dried flesh, pass on to create an image on a fluorescent screen, revealing to visitors the mummy's skeletal arrangement. General Electric X-Ray Corp. believes Harwa to be the first adult human body ever fluoroscoped in toto...
...expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
...would take more than such trivial euphemisms to dim the vitality inherent in Houston's story. That vitality emerges on the screen as loud as a war whoop and as earthy as the badlands...