Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watchman was employed on the premises, there was no way of determining the cause, although it is thought to have originated in an electrical short circuit. The first engines arrived at midnight, and in rapid succession more came in from firehouses in Brighton in response to the third and fourth alarms...
Senator Pat Harrison, of the virulent tongue, able Democratic whip from Mississippi, is getting $100 a speech on the Chautauqua circuit. His opponents comment: " At last he has found a market for his wares...
...Butts experimented with a galvanometer and an electric circuit on nearly 200 pairs of rats, one cancerous, the other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue...
...cruising or maintaining social relations at some isolated post!" A Zero Mile Stone was erected south of the White House. It marks the beginnings of the Lee and Lincoln Highways as the golden stone in the Forum marked the beginning of the great system of Roman roads. The Chautauqua Circuit put on the road this summer the largest number of men ever to test political acoustics from its platforms. Following the trail blazed long ago by William Jennings Bryan will be: Senators Watson (Ind.), Harrison (Miss.), Willis (Ohio), Brookhart (Ia.), Lenroot, (Wis.); Representatives Dickinson (Ia.), Shreve (Pa.), Tincher and Hoch...
...telegram. The sender of a telegram has only to write his message on a revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph and post offices...