Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compose a regulation script; adapters break it down into sequences, scenes, shots. The scenic department designs the background. Then three kinds of artists begin to work: 1) "animators" who sit at two long rows of specially made desks and work by light that streams through a central glass. They develop the gags, draw only the beginning and the end of an action. Their sketches are passed to 2) the "in-betweeners" who draw the small delicately graded changes that make a motion kinetic. Then 3) the "inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline boldly...
...invention is the work of one of the institute's youngest scientists, 29-year-old Dr. Bruno Lange. His first sun disc, developed several years ago, was copper covered with copper oxide. Lately he has used other metals and oxides, has found some which will develop from sunshine enough current to light an electric bulb, drive a small dynamo. Dr. Lange will not, of course, tell what metals he used...
Aside from their value in this respect, examinations perform another function, in the urge they develop for work by holding a threat over the head of the undergraduate, Even grades, however faulty and inexact they may be, provide a certain visible record of achievement, which serves as a kind of compensation for energy expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily...
...cities the capacity of the major street to bring traffic to the business district is far greater than the capacity of the business district to provide storage space. This fact will definitely limit the capacity of central district business property to develop until it is altered. The broad policy that agencies creating parking loads should provide for them in off-street facilities, was specifically confirmed during the past year by a report of the National Capitol Parking and Planning Commission of Washington, D. C. This report recommended that the Government provide storage space for the five thousand vehicles which will...
...composed of those who have accepted the examination system as a established convention, but have accepted it somewhat grimly. Hostile or unreasoning authority has, they assert, arbitrarily set up artificial barriers, and these barriers must somehow be scaled. As victims of this authority tutors and pupils must necessarily develop the cunning and the manoeuvre that will luckily get them past the entrenchments. These tutors admit that it is only a temporary and superficial advantage which they covet for their clientele...