Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divided Honors. You know that Kenneth Stewart is an author because his publisher keeps ringing him on the telephone. Otherwise you might be doubtful, for he spends his mornings fighting hangovers with antidotes of tomato juice, and his evenings trying to clear his chambers of pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie...
...disclosed his invention of a sun engine. His laboratory model consists of a parabolic mirror one foot in diameter, which focuses sunlight upon a hollow glass sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole in the top of the sphere, whence it could be piped to operate a steam piston...
...vapor and in turn vaporize the water which would operate a steam turbine. The turbine would operate an electric generator. Efficiency of such a sun engine would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear sky between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., when sunlight is strongest in the U. S. If storage batteries were used, the owner could get an average of 4 h.p. per hour day & night, all year around...
...handful of Representatives who attended one of the House's perfunctory meetings last week stopped their mumblings to listen, for a change, to what Clerk of the House William Tyler Page was reading from the rostrum in his clear rapid voice, which usually rings out over the Representatives' heads as though it (or they) had nothing to do with the case The Clerk was reading a letter from jovial rubicund Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who was prolonging his vacation (in Cincinnati). The letter designated Mr. Longworth's substitute, the Speaker Pro Tem. When Clerk Page stopped reading...
...World's Series which starts in Chicago tomorrow. He intimated that the A's would win the first game by a 4 to 1 count, provided Connie Mack followed the advice he wired him last night and started Rube Walberg on the mound. Otherwise Dr. Huey made it quite clear that he would be in no way responsible for the outcome of the opener and even hinted that he thought it would serve Connie right for trying to work on his own hook...