Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter received from Wilhelm von Bode, Director-General of the Prussian State Museum, is mentioned a highly commendatory article on Harvard's German Museum, published recently in "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin...
...learned from a careful study of the President's acts and utterances during those trying days -and it was as important for me to understand him as it was for his closest friends-that the key to all he did was that he thought of everything in terms of Wilson. In other words, Mr. Wilson in dealing with every great question thought first of himself. He may have thought of the country next, but there was a long interval, and in the competition the Democratic Party, I will do him the justice to say, was a poor third...
With alarums, excursions and whoops London Reds staged an impassioned demonstration last week before Bow Street Police Court. Red flags were swished and flaunted, the Communist Anthem was chanted ferociously off key. Within the court, Britain's "war on Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
...this letter Wilhelm von Bode, director-general emeritus of the Prussian State Museums, mentions a highly commendatory article on the Germanic Museum of the University, published in the September number of "Der Kunstwanderer." The key note of the article is regret that such a museum of casts of German sculpture should not exist in Berlin...
...Multiplex System. Upon a 10-metre "carrier" wave, Mr. Hammond's multiplex sending instrument impresses modulations, much as a locksmith files teeth in a blank key. A set of eight modulations goes out with each compound signal of the set of eight messages. Physically, these modulations consist in alterations of the length of the carrier wave by fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot...