Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Miles (all Indian Agents were automatically ''Major") had his hands full. The dice were loaded: "civilization" was bound to win. The quiet, unbitter history closes with Eagle That Dreams singing his chant to the rising sun. "When the lower edge of the sun barely touched the horizon the chant stopped and the early morning world seemed to be listening, except for the coughing of the pumps carried from the oil fields on the heavy...
...What this country needs is a great poem. Something to lift people out of fear and selfishness. Every once in a while someone catches words out of the air and gives a nation an inspiration. We need something to raise our eyes beyond the immediate horizon. A great nation can't go along just watching its feet. I'd like to see something simple enough for a child to spout in school on Fridays. I keep looking for it but I don't see it. Sometimes a great poem can do more than legislation...
...would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon. For the straight, light-like short waves cannot pass through the bulge of the earth or bend around...
...nautical manners to borrow another man's. It may be more or less ornate but it is much the same as the sextant that John Hadley invented in 1731.* Every noon at sea he goes up on the bridge and measures the angle the sun and the horizon make in the instrument, which gives him by logarithmic formula his position. When the sun is overcast, his sextant is useless. Last week in Manhattan navigators were impressed by the first major improvement since 1731 in the sextant, demonstrated for the first time...
...that it records even the heatwaves of another ship, a smokestack, an airplane, many miles away; the heat of a man's face a mile away. It not only registers heat waves, but differences of temperature in itself. At night, or in a fog. the electric eye sweeps the horizon. When it encounters an iceberg it loses heat. This loss of heat is recorded, the position of the iceberg determined. Now Macneil is trying to make it record even the infra-red rays from the stars, to chart a ship's position at night...