Word: alva
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Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
...Carr in 1938 and 1940 after 14 years in the Democratic column, set the stage for a bang-up struggle. Whichever party carries Colorado in November should get two Senate seats: the one now held by Democrat Edwin C. Johnson and one left vacant by the death of Democrat Alva B. Adams...
Last night, Mrs. Alva Myrdal called for missionaries to teach our way of life to the people of the earth who are in the ascendancy. Speaking in the New Lecture Hall, Mrs. Myrdal, former member of the Swedish Population Commission, pointed out that "the era of our expansion comes to a close with the impending decline in our population...
Human Resources in Democracy's New Order--Forum Lecture. Mrs. Alva Myrdal, New Lecture Hall, 8 o'clock...