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...long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
...Without ado he placed a piece of magnetized cobalt steel on a table and in the air some distance above it placed another similar piece. The upper one remained balanced without mechanical support. His explanation was simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
...Eastman system (Kodacolor), exploited a month ago with appropriate ado (TIME, Aug. 6), uses a corrugated film. When projected upon a screen the pictures are excellent. But the screen may not be larger than 16½ by 22 in. If larger, the images show the corrugations of the film. And no copies of the film can be made...
...Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will go to him and to them-my future subjects! I will do my duty, with God's help." Queen Emma. When Old King Willem proceeded to beget the present Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her mother, Queen Emma, had much ado to control a little Princess even more energetic, exuberant and wilful than she had been herself. For example, the Present Queen of the Netherlands behaved most obstreperously when, at the age of nine, she was compelled to change trains at a small railway station. Rushing up to the station master...
...survey of the front pages of modern newspapers convinces us of the truth of most of the charges levelled against the journals. The newspaper art of making much ado over unimportant events and neglecting matters of political and historical interest is demonstrated to us day by day, not alone by tabloids, but by high-minded and supposedly intellectual journals...