Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats in the Court Chamber was filled during these arguments, and no sooner was a seat vacated than it was instantly refilled by those who had been standing in a queue outside. Attorneys, watching critically to see what New Dealer Dickinson could do with a case that in the shadow of the Schechter decision looked far from hopeful, credited him with an able lawyer-like job. Curious laymen who hoped the Justices would pink the New Deal's attorneys fore & aft with embarrassing questions were disappointed. Neither the argument of Mr. Dickinson nor the argument of his opponents...
...some time the American Association has been a jaded shadow of Big League baseball who hasn't fared too well itself. If enthusiasm and can fill ball parks in Association cities, Millard Trautman has the proper bellows. Trautman, new president of the American Association, was born in Bucyrus, O,, starred in three school sports, football, baseball, and basketball, repeated the stardom at Ohio State University later...
...Republican candidate was typical of Mr. Farley's breezy confidence concerning the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States. "Oh, that's all right--don't you worry about that!" he replied to a discreet query about the election this autumn. Not a shadow of doubt about the issue was betrayed in the Farley smile and the suave Farley manner as he joked with "the boys...
...have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, whose very shadow would outrage high-caste Hindus, managed to get a good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar...
...bare wire running through the centre of each, this cable can transmit 240 telephone messages or 20 to 40 telegrams simultaneously and was primarily designed for such purposes. But it can also handle a radio frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental coaxial pipe between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Western Union, Postal Telegraph and certain cinemagnates objected, raised a monopoly scare. The Commission ruled that...