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Imagine an enormous male doll, bigger than most policemen. Its ruddy skin has a waxen glow. There is a wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Democracy," someone has said, "is a sublime fallacy." However that may be, this sublimity, in various aspects at least, is gradually suffusing the globe, until, in the not too far distant future, one may perhaps hope to see the whole world bathed in the refulgent, mellow glow of golden unanimity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LEVELLER | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LEVELLER | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

Sending Set. This consists of: 1) an arc light of brilliant and steady glow which throws a beam of light through 48 apertures arranged spirally in 2) a large disc that revolves 18 times a second. The light thus brushes speedily across an object or performer and is reflected back upon the third important element of the device-photo-electric cells. The reflected light modifies the electro-magnetic waves passing through the tubes. With light waves rapidly translated into electro-magnetic waves, there remains no problem of sending the electro-magnetic waves through the air. Radio transmission, which changes sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Practical Television | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...rays", not new, but come close to home, breeds startling ramifications. What boots a Bermuda trip at the peril of permanent indigence, or long weeks of semi-nude labor in the single sculls when the golden brown reward can be reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A RAY OF HOPE | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

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