Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal verities, abstract justice, and absolute good dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history can scarcely be expected to accept so categorical a statement, for instance, as: "The clergy of the allied nations are eager...
Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions...
...groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio receiving set. When a special generation at the central station...
...lonely sailors who would like to meet two attractive girls living in New York. We are both native born Americans and have light hair and blue eyes. We enjoy dancing, shows and swimming. TWO GOBS...
...deference of the incumbency until a man worthy of it may be named goes toward the creation of a precedent that will be permanent in its standard of excellence. In such light must this year's vacancy be regarded. And the advent next fall of Professor Garrod, editor of the Oxford Book of Latin Verse, must fully compensate to those who still remain to hear, for the present want...