Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show and I promised them every box in the house if they licked the Elis the next day. Whether they remembered this promise in the heat of the battle I don't know, but they won and that's all that mattered. They sure didn't forget me afterwards. They packed the house that night and George Owen...
...family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge. Then a day came when, with Dora and his mother he rode to the station, carrying a shoe box full of sandwiches. When the train came in, David said goodby and boarded it for Springfield. There he would work, study and, afterward, practice law. On that day the story ends...
...machine itself is decidedly unimpressive in general appearance. A wooden box scarcely the size of the smallest of radio receiving sets, contains everything save the three dry cells required for running the voice transmission machinery. Like any phonograph or mechanical flatiron the device can be wired to an ordinary electric light circuit. It resembles a typewriter when one raises the cover. For the recording wire, nearly two miles in length, is coiled upon two revolving wheels, like the more conventional typewriter ribbon spools. When the machinery is operating, the wire is carried through a tiny box, passing a magnetizing device...
Inside the box were electro-magnetic fields, actuated (through radio vacuum tubes) by an electric current that alternated at stupendously rapid frequencies. The alternations, as is the case with radio broadcasting waves, were too rapid for human ears to hear. But Professor Theremin, as anyone can do with a heterodyne radio receiving set, put one series of his electro-magnet waves against another series and thereby deadened a sufficient number of the millions of waves speeding silently through the box each second to leave few enough oscillations for audibility. (The highest number of waves that the ordinary human...
...device, interpreting sounds as light waves and shown to the curious throughout the U. S. a few years ago, was a toy. And as the inventors of that sound-color machine toured the U. S. exposition halls, so Professor Theremin's associates plan to take him and his box on tour...