Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied and controlled), moving his hands before two antennae (the right regulating pitch, the left...
...consequence is that if you had a general congress of all such reformers?not merely members of a particular society but all the people who are demanding sex reform?there would be a curious cross-party organization. Probably the Pope would find that on nine points out of ten he was warmly in sympathy with Dr. Marie Stopes. And all of them would probably disagree on such a question as the age of consent...
...Curious is the fact that the first commercial telephone exchange was opened at New Haven Jan. 28, 1878; more curious that an original subscriber, the Yale Daily News, began publication on that same...
...curious coincidence, a few years ago this same chauffeur with equal success, poured seven bullets from an automatic pistol into the body of the same much-appreciated lion tamer with similar results. Their affection is as remarkable as their marksmanship, 14 shots without a miss, and both protest against the interference of the police in their purely domestic affairs and ask to be reunited in order to continue their almost unbroken record of mutual esteem and forbearance...
...newsgatherers and scientists met at Dr. Steinmetz's invitation in a General Electric laboratory at Schenectady. Curious, they looked at a big generator the little doctor had made. Nervous, most of them looked away again. They knew what they were there for. The doctor was to create an indoor thunderstorm, destroy a miniature village with a million horsepower of artificial lightning. Suppose, thought the spectators, the sardonic-looking wizard should go suddenly mad! Suppose he should turn his electrical fury...