Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the trouble arising from Chapter XI has centered on the question of reports which governing powers are required to submit yearly to the U.N. on the social, economic, and technical conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...
White's book is a running story of one man's reactions to the "emanations" which New York City will transmit to anyone sensitive enough to receive them. From an "ex-speakeasy in East 53rd Street," for instance, come these emanations...
Color with Dots. RCA's system, called "dot interlacing," is entirely electronic, needs no spinning disc. In the transmitting camera are three tubes. In front of them is a system of "dichroic mirrors" (see below) which allow each tube to "see" in one color only. All three tubes scan the scene continuously, but an electronic switching device, turning their signals on & off 11.4 million times a second, allows each tube to transmit over the telecasting station only one-third of the time. In this way the "video signals" from all three tubes are strung together like trains made...
...factor) gets into the bloodstream of an Rh-negative woman (whose blood lacks the factor). This may happen either by transfusion or in carrying the child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant's Rh-positive blood, where they attack the red cells and cause acute anemia (erythroblastosis fetalis). In modern practice there is an 80% chance of saving the infant's life promptly after birth, through a dramatic operation: the baby's blood...
...side of the argument and build up the Archbishop's position. He was reported by the UP to have refused to go to the Chancery to read the full text of the letter and to have denied admittance to the priest the Archbishop sent to St. Benedict's to transmit the letter...