Word: inked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will, of course, be in quick transmission of pictures for newspaper use. By it banks can verify signatures of foreign tourists...
...Princeton team. Princeton earned again its reputation for courage and refusal to accept defeat until the final whistle few, and, in the last three minutes of play, showed an attack and spirit, undaunted by the shadow of defeat, and almost successful in clutching the prize of victory. Ink a game that was fierce and clean-cut from start to finish Princeton has a right to finish Princeton has a right to say of its team that its "head is bloody but unbowed...
...Navy has wisely requested her airmen to permit these records to stand long enough for the ink to dry on the books. Although London statistics show that it is safer to fly than to walk, Navy officials are inclined to believe that a continuation of flights--especially with the same unrepaired planes--will eventually lead to disaster. Indeed Lieutenant Williams narrowly missed crashing into a squad of bombers which were meandering along at a poor sixty or ninety miles an hour. He did not bother to slow up, for according to him it is "just as well to hit them...
...Scientific American prize for ghost raisers by making the quickness of the hand deceive the eye was put to ignominious rout by the forces of science. The fact that William James, the great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must have made anyone nose a rat. Evidently...
...chimera of infallibility has indelibly been sketched in printer's ink about the name of any one of the Big Three. The men are dubbed gridiron heroes, many as early as their preparatory school days, and immediately they cease to be mortal. Once deified in this way by sport writers, the chronicle of their doings becomes of far greater value...