Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful 100 watt tube transmitters, designed to operate on a wave length of 75-200 meters. A complicated system of switching will permit the operator on duty to have at his command three different circuits, in addition to a 50 watt radiophone. Three separate receivers have been installed, which cover the entire range of wireless communication and will enable everything from experimental stations on 20 meters to powerful Transatlantic stations on 25,000 meters to be heard...
...office hours will be held at the CRIMSON Building from 12.30 to 1.30 every afternoon this week, and from 7 o'clock to 8 every evening except Saturday. Next week the hours will be extended to cover all the afternoon, lasting from 12.30 until 8 o'clock. Sunday office hours will be held only between 7 and 8 o'clock...
...Scientific View. Meticulous obsenations will be made on many aspects of the phenomena accompanying the sun's eclipse. In many cases, the observations will cover a period extending a month before and a month after the event. One of the chief things to be studied is the sun's corona. Because it is visible only during the brief periods of total eclipses, there has probably been only about an hour made up of scattered minutes here and there, now and then, during which the corona has been under scientific examination. It is known to be connected with the phenomena...
...suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit or passenger cabin against which the heads of pilot or passenger are likely to strike...
Among the Christmas magazines at the news-stalls there lay a newcomer, a monthly fiction magazine, with a creamy cover, a big golden moon, a golden skirted lady and gold stars. You stared at this magazine because there, beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back...