Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether the "canals" of Mars are real or optical illusions. The canals are easier for imaginative astronomers to see than to record on unimaginative photographic plates. But last week Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory, armed with good photographs of the red planet taken during its close approach last summer, declared that these pictures and others made during the past 35 years all show the canals clearly defined and in the same place...
...returns are not only diminishing but negative in effect. Those who go to see "Gone With The Wind" expecting "the greatest motion picture ever produced," the "film of the century," and the "apotheosis of the photographic art" are going to be--and have been--disillusioned. But those who approach Loew's with their mental standards set at the usual level will have a rare treat...