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...Professor Theremin, as anyone can do with a heterodyne radio receiving set, put one series of his electro-magnet waves against another series and thereby deadened a sufficient number of the millions of waves speeding silently through the box each second to leave few enough oscillations for audibility. (The highest number of waves that the ordinary human ear can hear is close to 30,000 a second.) And just as a radio amateur can make a cheap receiving set squeal by moving his hand about the unprotected parts and thus altering the electrical tension of the whole set, just...
...With solemnity Cardinal Hayes was inducted as the head of a new chapter in the order, to be known as the Knights of Malta in the United States, the first chapter in the Western Hemisphere. His Eminence was also notified that he had received the Grand Cross of Honor, highest rank of the order...
...California. It weighed 1,055 pounds, accumulated by feeding on barley, oats, bran & alfalfa. The New Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, paid $2.35 a pound for California Stamp, to slaughter him for its Christmas dinners. Last year's champion fat steer, Rupert B., brought $3.60 a pound on the hoof, highest price ever paid...
...Members of the Chicago Board of Trade (grain marketing) last week voted to erect a $10,000,000 building of 40 stories. One member sold his seat last week for $10,000, highest sale price since 1919. That year seats were worth $11,100. ¶Again, a buyer for a New York Curb Exchange seat paid a new record price, $65,000. Trader William A. Scott bought it last week. A fortnight ago the record was $45,000 (TIME...
...voter should place the figure "I" opposite the name of the man whom he desires for First Marshal; and that he should designate with "X" the name of the men whom he desires for Second and Third Marshals. A plurality of "1's" elects the First Marshal; the highest plurality of both "1's" and "X's" elects the Second Marshal, and the next highest number of combined votes elects the Third Marshal...