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Word: tracks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment of the Malay Peninsula, the southern tip of Siam and a few Philippine Islands. At the centre of the track the maximum duration of the eclipse was about five minutes, with duration decreasing at each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectacle | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...salability, the Eastman tinting is described as giving scenes ''colors conforming to their emotional content." Two makes of talkies (R.C.A. and Western Electric) have their sound records on the edges of the films. Hitherto, if a film was tinted it interfered with light passing through the sound track, distorted the sound. Experiments were made with tinting only the visual portion of the film. The method was successful, but expensive. Then efforts were bent to securing tints that would not affect the light passing through the sound record. This has been achieved so that there is hardly any perceptible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastman Colors | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman track team travels to Exeter where it will meet the school boy contingent. It is expected that the preparatory school men will offer only weak opposition, and that the Freshmen will take the meet without difficulty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 Meets Exeter in Track | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

Lacking in news value and human interest though a convention of deans may be, it no doubt offers more real opportunity for interchange of ideas and the promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEANS FOREGATHER | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...Dartmouth track team, 41 strong, arrives in town tonight with high hopes for victory in the Stadium tomorrow. Only once, in 1911, has Harvard bowed to the Indian track and field men, but this year the visitors seem unusually strong for a dual meet. Coach Farrell is not up to his usual optimism as he hears tales from Hanover of 6 foot high-jumpers, 49 second quarter-milers, and 45 foot shot-putters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIANS ARRIVE FOR ANNUAL TRACK MEET | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

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