Word: duals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Shepard at present occupies a cluttered office in "John Martin's House," on the 14th floor of a Manhattan office building. He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard. Sometimes he will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story...
...radio beacon marking the course, and occasional spoken words from ground stations. Heretofore a complete receiving set was required for each purpose. Last week after months of work by Radio Engineers F. E. Gray and A. W. Parkes, Eastern Air Transport announced development (with Aircraft Radio Corp.) of a dual coil attachment by which one receiver can do all the work. As installed on E. A. T.'s Condors, the device reduces radio weight from 110 lb. to 80 lb., eliminates $550 worth of equipment. With fewer parts the new set can be inspected in half the time...
...intercollegiates for the first time, Eastman lost to Vic Williams in the quarter-mile, won the half-mile handily. By that time, everyone knew that he was a great middle distance man but no one anticipated Eastman's doings this spring. Late in March, in a dual meet against the Los Angeles Athletic Club, he won the 440 in 46.4 sec., a full second faster than Ted Meredith's world record which since 1916 had been regarded as unbreakable. Two weeks later, Ben Eastman won a half-mile race in 1:51.3, or .3 sec. faster than...
...Princeton track team: a dual meet with Yale (Princeton's first track victory against Yale since 1925) by 80 to 55; at New Haven...
...Angeles, the University of Southern California won a dual meet with Stanford, in which Stanford's long Ben Eastman, who runs as though he were trying to prevent his glasses from falling off, ran the quarter-mile in 47.1 sec.?.3 sec. under the listed world's record but .7 sec. slower than his own best time...