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...Baptist missionaries. They sent him to several Negro universities-Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, Selma. He celebrated 25 years of work by donning a white satin robe stitched by women of his church, preaching 25 of his best sermons consecutively in 17 hours. Some of the sermons: The Prodigal Son, The Beam and the Mote, Be Still, Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands, Where Are We Spiritually, Educationally and Socially?, The Soul's Anchor, The Borrowed...
...fashioned earthquake recorders there was a heavy mass whose movements, amplified by a system of levers, were transmitted by means of a stylus to a recording drum. In modern instruments the stylus is replaced by a beam of light which makes its zigzag tracks on photosensitive paper. Actually it is not the heavy mass which moves, but everything else-earth, observatory, revolving drum -while the weight, which is freely suspended, remains still because of its inertia...
...poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature, the distance between it and the magnet changes slightly, altering the magnetic field and creating a tiny electric current which is amplified by vacuum tubes. This current fluctuates the light beam which makes the record, also twitches a galvanometer needle. In the Benioff seismograph, earth movements are magnified 200,000 times...
...Example: the pilot was thrust into an unnecessarily dangerous situation by faulty dispatching (once), radio troubles (often) or bad weather forecasting (often). No crash of a scheduled plane in recent years has been due to structural failure of the plane itself. No one has ever proved that a radio beam has failed, but any map of the radio ranges shows that many more are needed...
...advantage of the opportunity to correlate their knowledge. At finals ten reviews were given, among the most successful of which were Chemistry A and History 1. To the former came two-thirds of those enrolled to unsnarl their formula-ridden minds. As for the latter review it threw a beam of light across six hundred years and caused the broad outlines of the whole to fall into meaningful order. The most severe jolt handed the Committee was during the review of Government 1, when the students walked out on the lecturer...