Word: screen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCay stood in front of the screen and gave a sort of lecture, "Gertie" would bow and act as if she were responding to Mr. Mc-Cay's instructions...
...Worth noting is the fact that while the Post runs many stage and screen articles, that great entertainment medium the radio is almost never featured...
...episodes (each announced by old-fashioned subtitles) parade across the screen the high lights of 26 years (1844-1870) : the panting enthusiasm of the gold rush, mushrooming San Francisco, the lickety-split pony express, the careening overland stages, the Civil War's venomous fratricide, Reconstruction's remorseful hangover...
...Hansell of Rocky Point, N. Y. and assigned to Radio Corp. of America, the apparatus emits radio waves so short that some of them bounce back from an obstacle to the sending point, where they are focused so as to create a tiny image on a copper sulfate screen.* The picture emerges as a white silhouette on a blue background. If the obstacle is a ship, its distance can be inferred from the size of the image...
...Inventor Hansell last week explained in his own words: "The process of forming the image takes advantage of the effect of integration or accumulation of the effect of the waves upon the screen and this increases its sensitivity...