Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Building which has telecast more than 40 miles. However, no big U. S. radio group wants to get into commercial television until the purchaser may be assured that his set will not be obsolescent for a reasonable period of time, and until television shows can command fuller attention than sound radio now gets. Well aware that the technical side of television presents no more complications, drawbacks and headaches than its artistic side, CBS has Columnist Gilbert Vivian Seldes masterminding the aesthetics of television for it while RCA builds it a transmitter to go in the Chrysler Building tower (telecasting range...
...Society at Syracuse last week, apparently nourishes teeth, keeps them supplied with the mineral salts which make them hard and impervious to bacteria and bits of food which cause decay. Malnutrition is one of the factors which disturbs this protective activity of the dental lymph. Therefore, to keep teeth sound, general good health is as important as brushing the teeth. But especially if health is below par, then it is very important to keep mouth and teeth clean...
...Able Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that the late, egregious Senator was back again...
Stolen Heaven is more likable than most gem-thievery pictures because its pattern is fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...
...Wendell Willkie objected and there was something of a row. The utility magnates wound up by having a conference with SEC Chairman William Douglas, then writing him a cordial note to say they had appointed a committee of five "to cooperate with the Commission in endeavoring to bring about sound and constructive solutions of the problems...