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...dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel end of a large horn in such a way that whenever Professor Saunders spoke the streak of light on the screen waved, reproducing exactly the sound waves. He then made sounds illustrating complicated waves and overtones...
...object of this flattery, to misquote one of his speeches, was born with a funnel in his mouth. A deplorable circumstance which his father had in vain tried to remedy. And then came the storm which blew Henry out to the Pacific coast, drinking as he went. Of course he fell in love with the "whitest girl in the world", and, taking her heart in his hand, he dragged her after him to the dregs of a Chinese city--6, 560 miles! There "midst horrid shapes, and shrieks and sights unholy" the battle for purity took place a veritable wrestling...
...difference but because it is the way of the times; he has been bred up to it by his environment. Yet after he has finished this kind of reading he has nothing to show for his time or reading and concentration, his mind merely becomes a sieve, a funnel where everything is poured in and passed out, and nothing retained. Like a field to which nothing is returned after the crop is harvested, so the mind becomes an empty barren place, productive of no vintage, a place despised of men. --PURDUE EXPONENT
...Inferno" an Inverted Funnel...
...philosophic accu- men and elastic thought." From a thoughtful point of view, he constructed his "Inferno" so as to classify the various sins according to their relative baseness and to adjust the penalties with suitability to the sins. Dante's "Inferno" is like an inverted funnel, consisting of concentric circles. The first four circles are occupied by sinners through impulse--lust, gluttony, greed. The fifth circle--the "circle of transition" is occupied by malcontents. The rest of the way to the city of Dis is people by heretics, then by those who have been false both to principle...