Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...diameter of the disc must be twice the size of the desired picture. Even if an original black & white screen measures 20 inches, the most practicable color picture will be a 12½-inch one. Technicians, both at CBS and RCA, are currently working on an electronic, direct-view color tube that may, eventually, permit color screens of any size...
...Waugh follows a 12th Century legend in having Helena born a British princess. The more accepted view: she was born a commoner in Bithynia...
...Blundering" British. In Napoleon's view, of course, it was the "logic" of France's condition, not his own ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man who could "save [society] from destruction." The best chapter in the Memoirs is devoted to the cunning, diplomacy and brute force employed by Napoleon in making quite sure that the inevitable occurred...
...nothing of running up a pretty healthy score to mash some upstart West Point outfit. But now that Army has taken us 54 to 14 and 49 to 0, anyone can see it's time to draw in our hors little bit. We just seem to take a different view of football from most other people these days...
Sockol stated that "in time such as these, when widespread hysteria infringes upon the rights of minorities, it is essential that people realize the importance of maintaining an objective view. The only way this objectivity can be preserved . . . is if the minorities themselves are allowed to speak out. . . . If that end can be accomplished only by waiving the membership-list requirement, then we feel such action should be taken...