Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finnish. Originated by Helsinski University's Psychology Institute and expansively called What Sort Of Person Does This Voice Belong To? the program presents nine inexperienced broadcasters, has each read for one minute from the same text. Listeners are asked to determine each reader's sex, age, height, build, degree of seclusiveness, personality, characteristics, profession. In one case the Finns made it harder by having twins speak alternate sentences...
...building is 188 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 40 feet in wall height. The exterior will be finished with brick, and the roof will be covered with red slates taken from the old Hemenway and will be surmounted by a lantern carrying the weathervane of the former building...
...Wykoff. Since 1928 he has been renowned for his record-breaking pole vaulters, most sensational of whom were the "Trojan Twins," Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, who wound up their college careers last year by breaking the world record with identical vaults three times, once at the unheard of height...
...characteristic which gives the ionosphere its name and usefulness to man is the fact that at his great height, where atmospheric pressure is almost at a vacuum stage, and the atmosphere receives the full intensity of the ultraviolet sunlight, atoms are readily ionized...
...aware that the technical side of television presents no more complications, drawbacks and headaches than its artistic side, CBS has Columnist Gilbert Vivian Seldes masterminding the aesthetics of television for it while RCA builds it a transmitter to go in the Chrysler Building tower (telecasting range depends on the height of the transmitting antennae). For a month NBC has been actually sending out shows several hours a week.* Last week, when the press was given a preview on what had been done, it was decided that test programming would continue throughout the summer...