Word: discs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo-electric cells. Inventor Baird used one mysterious "supersensitive" cell. The varying current is then amplified 5,000,000,000,000,000 times before it is transmitted over wires or through the air by radio...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...
...game. After 12 minutes of play in the first period, Coady whirled down the right lane, and launched a wicked shot that skidded past the net, right into Stanley, waiting in front of the cage. From a cluster of Green defense men, the Crimson substitute slipped the disc through and past Bott for the first score. In the second stanza, Coady took the puck down center ice, and his crashing drive straight into the heart of the Green goal gave the Crimson its second score...
...minutes Lane swept across the ice and cracked the puck with a vicious backhander that was deflected and rolled gently toward the Crimson net. Morrill had been drawn from his post, and with no one on guard. Coady reached out and with the tip of his stick turned the disc aside, saving what would have been the winning score. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Tudor, Gross l.w. r.w. Rogers, R. Fryberger Scott, Chase c. c. Gardner, Bayler Zarakov, Stanley r.w. l.w. W. Fryberger Clark, Coady l.d. r.d. Hardy Ellison, Stanley r.d. l.d. Lane, Shea Morrill g. g. Sott...
Among the sportier introductions was the low-hung Six Cylinder Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...