Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Museum acquires both of the groups of statuary which have graced the east facade of the Boston Post Office for the last 50 years will probably be determined by the decision of the Art Commission of the City of Boston as to whether or not it plans to keep one of the statues in Boston...
...decision is made not to keep one of the groups of statuary of D. C. French, both works of art will probably be brought to Cambridge, as a result of the offer made Sunday night by Professor J. H. Sachs to preserve both the statues at Harvard if the City of Boston did not wish to keep them...
...Kolster's beam differs from Guglielmo Marconi's. In the Marconi system a number of wires at each side of the sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...
...consists of a platform 210 x 60 ft. which turns on a swivel base 40 ft. in diameter to keep the length parallel with the direction of the wind. This swiveling is essential because planes can properly land or take off only against the wind. The platform also tilts up or down. The departing plane can coast down it; the arriving plane must roll up, constantly losing speed until it stops. Spring cables along the platform also retard the speed of the landing plane...
Radio. At Linden, N. J., Standard Oil is erecting a lofty aerial as the first mesh in a projected world radio network to keep all its marine and land plants in constant communication...