Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago John Vincent Lawless Hogan, a plump, soft-spoken radio engineer, got a license to operate a small experimental television station in Long Island City. To accompany his experimental television broadcasts Engineer Hogan used phonograph records. Because he could not think as well to jazz, Engineer Hogan used symphonic records. Not many people were equipped to receive his television broadcasts, but many radio listeners tuned in on his symphonic accompaniments...
...swank Georgia Hotel 500 men made themselves at home on the hotel lobby's soft, upholstered furniture. They left there after one night when a $500 bribe was raised by the city. Another 500 occupied the general post office, 200 moved into the Civic Art Gallery and there they stayed one month. Organized in orderly "military" squads, the men interfered as little as possible with business routine, were careful to clean up every morning, took exercise by marching in relays on the streets...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
...third native-born generation of an old Scotch line, but after the Jersey City incident I am soft pedaling my Americanism. H. F. McGINLEY...
...last year's show, New York carried off most of the honors, this time with a soft-textured nude by George Grosz, a characteristic frozen-faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced...