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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain capacities were small, 600 and 440 cc. as against about 1,400 cc. for modern man. But when Dr. Broom had had a good look at their teeth he sent excited reports to the British journal Nature claiming that these old creatures must be assigned a place very close to the point of human divergence from the parent primate stock...
...make it clear that Voder does not reproduce speech, like a telephone receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds, controlled by a skilled operator manipulating...
...Times, Gail Borden has been an ardent Guildsman, a great traveler, one of Lou Ruppel's best friends. He was born 33 years ago in Houston, a block from Aviator Howard Hughes (a close friend), is married to Betty Frey, daughter of a potent Chicago adman. They expect their first baby in April. His widowed mother holds about 7% of the Times's stock. Last week Managing Editor Borden had good reason but little time for his favorite hobby : sitting up all night to talk and bib with fellow-newsmen...
...Washington alone they number around 300, with salaries totaling close to $1,000,000 a year. Mimeographs whir endlessly with their press handouts, which are sorted and clipped together at electrical revolving tables, rushed by messenger to a battered table in the lobby of the National Press Club. There, any afternoon, correspondents hurrying in for a 5 o'clock whiskey & soda can run through an assortment like this...
Assen Jordanoff brightened his book with hundreds of lucid and often humorous illustrative drawings and diagrams, spiced it with asides like: "The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again. . . . Being playful close to the ground may mean an extra order of lilies for your neighborhood florist...