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...built huge electric coils which scattered rays and short-circuited nearby electric apparatus. Inventors are trying to "step up" the Tesla coil for long-distance work...
...love to a promiscuous promoter of Wall Street. On his estate at Asbury Park, N.J., he gives jamborees which scandalize the neighborhood. It is this millionaire's proud boast that he can make any Woman subservient to his lecherous leanings by muffling her good impulses in the mortal coil of evil environment...
...about to become embittered by changes in social custom he notes about him. His The Wasted Generation, although a most popular book, to me, at least, seemed muddy in its psychology; but after a new venturing into boy life in Skippy Bedelle he seems to have sloughed off his coil of weariness and there is renewed vitality of vision in Blue Blood. He has been married four times and lives in the town of his birth in the proper season; in Stockbridge in the summer...
OUTWARD BOUND?A telling and unforgettable voyage to the hereafter, in which not even Death can quite make people shuffle off this mortal coil...
...distance compass. Any ordinary compass has to be placed in the pilot's pit, where it is so disturbed by the motor and other surrounding metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course. In the 450 miles of blind flight, Barksdale...