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...Story. Pollyanna Whittier, inventor of the famed "glad game" (which consists of picking out silver linings for all the blackest clouds), marries Jimmy Pendleton in Chapter One and becomes forthwith "just the entrancing, glad little bride you would expect her (from the previous Pollyanna books**) to be." It rains on her wedding-day, Jimmy hasn't much money, their apartment looks out on fire-escapes, Jimmy eats up the chicken-salad she was saving for dinner, just because he happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added...
Said Guglielmo Marconi to a learned Manhattan audience in 1922: "The radio transmission of the human voice across the Atlantic Ocean is a matter of but a few years." His prediction came true ahead of time. Last week, lecturing before distinguished Romans, the inventor of wireless telegraphy prophesied again. Said he: "High-power stations will soon be abolished. Stations of very low power will supplant them. I have been making discoveries concerning short wavelengths. My engineer and I have patented directional waves like beams of light...
...divorce in April, this year), and a commercial scandal in England. In 1912 it was charged that Premier Asquith, Chancellor George and other Cabinet officers had profited improperly through promotion of the Marconi companies. The conclusion of the matter was that blame could not be attached to the inventor and that the Cabinet members had merely been "indiscreet...
...Columbus (North German Lloyd)-Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Prof. Hugo Junkers, German airplane inventor...
...Only one watt in a 100-watt lamp actually illuminates," the inventor explained, "the others merely give off heat." Yet it is possible, he believes, to build a 10,000-candle-power lamp that will give off no heat at all. Such a"frozen light" could be used cheaply to project cinemas...