Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great names are faces. To read "MUSSOLINI" is to receive a potent visual impression. Last week Germans read "STINNES," and before them arose an unforgettable face...
Special home receiving sets are now so numerous (between two and three thousand) and this visual experimenting so important that last week O. H. Caldwell, of the Federal Radio Commission, urged his associates to encourage it by all possible regulations...
...wide interest in visual broadcasting has already warranted the publishing of a special magazine, Television, by Hugo Gernsback, famed producer of "bug" magazines...
...university have followed the same general paths, but have followed them further. Yale has applied the motion picture to the field of history, and furthermore, she has produced the pictures herself. Then, in the last few months, the Yale University Press has put out a very complete "visual history" of the United States, eventually to be published in fifteen volumes...
...reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where an exact process is performed before the camera, such a course is reasonable and commendable. Equally, when in the field of art, a picture must be reproduced to show to the many, the system works, since the visual is the only quality to be taken into consideration. But in the field of history the visual education method is not comprehensive. It exhibits history in flashes that print cannot rival, but it does not go below the surface and reveal what is only revealed by that more arduous process...