Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunlight TV Tube. Conventional TV pictures tend to fade out when the light in the room gets too bright. This is because the glowing substance (phosphor) on the face of the picture tube is a reflective powder. In sunlight or other strong light, the reflection gets brighter than the picture and washes the picture...
...biggest fault of the film comes from this everybody-has-a-story approach to all the characters. The life histories and present predicaments of each minor character intrude on the main action too much and tend to distract attention from the principals. You leave the theater confused by incidental episodes and uncertain about the director and script writer's purpose. If their purpose was to make a movie exactly life-like by packing it with interesting but irrelevant happenings, they have come dangerously close to succeding. Perhaps the greatest criticism of all cinematographic realists is that they are not selective...
...abolitionists hold other cards. Students may, they contend, tend to take easier or less demanding courses with the grade squarely in mind. More serious and apparent, however, is the eleventh-hour anxiety and general mark-consciousness that pervade the academic testing ground. Education then becomes a process of accumulating gold stars rather than broadening personal experience and understanding...
...must attack the rot, artistic and otherwise, which he felt existed all about him. Unfortunately, it was this vehemence which led him to be unjust in much of his criticism, and this eagerness to be "the enemy" under any circumstances, which gave rise to excesses and inconsistencies that tend to discredit his work...
...with a few larger chunks of matter at their centers. Another theory, developed by Astronomer Fred L. Whipple of Harvard, is that they are made mostly of "ices." Out in cold, dark outer space, says Whipple, beyond the last of the planets, wandering molecules of methane, water or ammonia tend to stick together as solids. Gradually snowflakes of a sort form. Attracting one another feebly over millions or billions of years, they gather into sizable bodies of solidified gas peppered with grains of sand or dust. They may get to be several miles in diameter...