Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which absorb part of the light and transmit the remainder to the plate. This process produces a transparency which, held to the light, shows a photograph in original color...
...When foreign nations exchange long notes with this country as England and France have recently been doing, they do not cable the notes at their expense, but give them to our ambassadors in England or Paris, who in turn transmit them to Washington at our own expense...
...profoundly. It is now an open question whether democracy and the system of jurisprudence which is associated with it can meet successfully the ever more difficult tasks which the momentous economic and political forces of our day thrust upon them. It is no longer sufficient that a law school transmit the accumulated body of legal knowledge and give proficient training in legal practice. If the bar and bench are not to be a dead hand upon the process of social and economic readjustment and invention with which our generation must necessarily concern itself, then the schools of law must undertake...
...Great Britain expects to be paid in "land annuities" nearly one-quarter of the tax revenue of the Free State, Mr. de Valera exclaimed: "Britain finds the ?37.000,000 due the United States [yearly] almost unbearable. What appeal would she not make to the world if she had to transmit abroad a fourth of her tax revenue as we have had to do! ... If she paid the United States proportionately as much as she expects us to pay, she would pay the United States...
Only males can suffer haemophilia. Only females can transmit it. Mysterious and incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina...