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...breath control. His foot, instead of idly marking time, operates a bellows which shoots auxiliary air up through a tube into his mouth. That the air may reach the mouth at lung temperature and humidity, the tube passes through a small tank of water heated by an electric light bulb. Mr. Houston admits that the aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle technique to switch from lung to bellows air without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players...
...stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire to a 25,000-volt high-frequency generator. There was a flash, then the bulb began to glow with a bright yellow light. It continued to glow for 35 minutes after the shock had been administered. Four months later, Professor Knipp repeated the procedure. For no reason that he could see the bulb remained bright for no minutes. The third time it glowed 187 minutes, fourth...
Jubilee. That the sardonic writer may have been just, though badly characterizing, was suggested during the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb two years ago. The common man in many a land shut off his electric light and sat quietly in darkness for three minutes to honor Thomas Alva Edison, and doubtless had many a thought for which there had not been time before. When the world's lights, cinemas and roar commenced again, common men displayed their bad taste by effusions which culminated in George Michael Cohan's song which said...
...Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...
...paying the price of drudgery and discipline. So is the American people. . . . He is our first hair shirt hero. . . . Mr. Hoover detests and dreads the mob. . . . His is a detailed, though somewhat disorderly mind. He gives off light, not heat. He is as dynamic as a 30-watt bulb. . . . He can work with underlings but not with equals. . . . Mr. Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work, $95,000 as a financial adviser. . . . His English [is] no more precise or pure now than when he flunked this course at Leland Stanford...