Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, narrow control room of Columbia Broadcasting Co., high above Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, are switches, plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...
...Angeles, George Searcy ("Moran") enjoined Charles E. Sellers ("Mack") from using their black-face comedy team name, "Moran & Mack- Two Black Crows." Organized in 1917, the team has had several "Morans," one "Mack...
...academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor. Previously he had married a lady, described by the Fascist press as "a Japanese beauty." Last week, sick, mad, and feebly tearing his raven hair, he was said to be in such condition that his keepers expected speedy...
...courthouse steps. In court, Builder Radojevitch seated himself tenderly in the witness chair and proceeded to give damaging testimony to the effect that his wife had been in voluntary and culpable connection with a number of handsome Hungarian officers during the War. Other witnesses stood ready to corroborate. Her black eyes flashing, Mme. Radojevitch pulled from her reticule an automatic pistol, fired wildly in all directions. When the smoke cleared away her husband lay dying on the floor, his chief witness was gravely wounded, the presiding justice and clerk of the court were hiding under their desks...
Professor Black hopes to spend most of his time in England, France, and Germany where he plans to study the methods of teaching science employed in those countries. He will also investigate some phases of recent developments of scientific research in the United States and foreign countries...