Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs in the call, does not even have to say "Thank...
...cities the device is to be used only until all the community's telephones are changed to mechanical dialed ones. But for long distance use the machines are to be used until something even more efficient can be devised to help out the girl operators...
...District of Columbia, then to Long Island, a heavy trimotored Ford plane flew last week. Except at take-offs and landings the pilot scarcely ever touched the controls. A new device, a gyroscopic stabilizer similar to the stabilizers which help keep ships from rolling, kept the Ford on even keel through wind and fog. When gusts twisted the plane from its course, the stabilizer returned it automatically...
...alumni, and the adherents of the small colleges that they are pursuing a course entirely divergent from the trend of progressive and modern education--that they cannot hope to compete on an equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing of the dim and distant future...
...rest of the Harvard menagerie, the nips of a playful little terrier, the remarks of a parrot, and the hoots of two owls have their own select circles of admirers; so none are ever completely overlooked, even in the greatest of confusions...