Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than a minor sideshow. Nobody bothered to watch it organize, except members' families and a few sightseers turned away from the big top at the other end of the Capitol. For the first time, the routine was televised (see RADIO); Harry Truman saw it on a ten-inch screen beside his desk...
Popular song writers have come in for an awful beating in a series of film biographies. Following the other-world treatment given Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Metro wisely took another tack and put the life of Jerome Kern on the screen much as it should be presented in little more than concert form. If there is a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger...
...been a tall man before he was bowed by his disgusting sickness, and even now he walked with a vigorous step. The dismal beating oj his bell, the pattering of the stick, the eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...
...world's coldest regions are areas near the poles where there is little or no sun in winter to warm the air, little wind to bring in warm air, and few clouds to screen the ground from outer space. Under these conditions, the air near the surface loses heat by radiation, often getting considerably colder than the atmosphere far above...
...London last week six BBC staffers sat in a small, dark room and intently watched a television screen. From the screen stared the serious face of a young man; he was talking quietly. Suddenly one man in the audience dropped his head on his chest, fast asleep. Soon three others were asleep...