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...with a thousand tufts and plumes in disorderly parade. To discover a common tilt to the hat or characteristic gait in marching is impossible. The stories in this collection have been conceived and penned in a variety of moods, and only the reviewer, clutching at straws, could pretend to detect a motive proper to the entire company. A certain prosaic literalness and timorous aversion from the loftier strains of prose perhaps comes nearer than any other quality to providing a measure for the book as a whole; at best, it is little above mediocrity. There is a ghost story...
...view of the fact that the H. A. A. authorities are making especial efforts to detect all cases of the illegal transfer of tickets, each ticket will he carefully examined, and its owner identified before admission is granted to the Stadium...
...system will be different," he said, "that is all. The H. A. A. officials do not like to assume the role of detectives, but we have been informed of several individuals who are busily practicing counterfeit signatures in anticipation of Saturday's game. We intend to detect this abuse, and punish it, in every possible case...
...with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed to detect motion in the Corona. In addition the apparatus included a moving picture machine with which the first films ever taken of an eclipse were obtained...
...geophone, an instrument invented by the French during the War to detect sapping operations of the Germans underground, has been developed by U. S. Engineers for rescue work in mines, gauging tunnel borings, etc. It contains diaphragms like a seismograph, which transmit the most delicate vibrations to the observer's ears. Sledge pounding can be detected 3,000 feet through solid rock, and ordinary talking through 50 feet of coal...