Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment showed a negative result, however, in the transmission of physical attributes and the intended vocations or political views of the speakers. Photographs of the three men broadcasting were distributed among the audience, and most of the visual impressions of the group of listeners did not coincide with their aural ones. Particularly noticeable was the fact that humorous remarks seem less humorous through a loud speaker. In general, the results of the experiments thus for indicate that the voice heard from behind a curtain is slightly more revealing than the same voice over the radio...
...additionally required courses in astronomy are courses 5 and 3, both half-courses, the former re-covering the material of stellar astronomy in detail and stressing the application of physical principles to stellar problems, the latter the use of instruments in the determination of fundamental star positions, both by visual observation and by photographic procedure. Supplementing course 3 by Geography 34, the student comprehends the use of instruments in the field of practical astronomy. For honors and additional course is required selected from the field of astronomy...
...seamy side of war is something which the army of no nation can afford to have extensively advertised. Most governments suppress all official photographs which would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...diameter, and other astronomical equipment of the late Dr. Edward Drake Roe, Jr. '85, professor of Astronomy at Syracuse University, has been received by the Harvard College Observatory as the gift of Mrs. Roe and her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Gaggin. It will be used as the only visual telescope among a large number of instruments for photographic work, at the new Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory, to be opened next summer at the town of Harvard, Massachusetts...
Some years have passed since printed advertising started to make handmaiden of the visual arts, since an attractive young saleswoman persuaded Arthur Rackhan to let his gnomes and gnarled trees be used to advertise Colgate's soap. Maxfield Parrish early turned his lush blues and sunlit yellows to frankly commercial account Recently American Car & Foundry used a series of Rockwell Kent's best drawings...