Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced to get in range of the Pennsylvania's 14-inch guns, remain in range for a time long enough (in the umpire's opinion) for the Pennsylvania to have sunk her in actual warfare. In the third place, the big guns are not actually fired. Every...
...Legg, inventor for Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and Dr. Max A. Goldstein, director of Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis. In principle it is like the oscillograph used in every high-school physics class for experiments on sound. Noises thrown against a diaphragm causes a light to throw a shadow against a screen. The same sound always causes the same shadow. The Legg-Goldstein machine is a highly efficient oscillograph...
Patients in the General Hospital at Kansas City, Mo., were disturbed shortly before midnight, one night last week, by a loud explosion and a sudden flash of light. Then the night resumed its quietude and its blackness. Next day, investigators found a burned patch of grass on the hospital grounds and a few small holes, less than two inches in diameter, in the earth. A fireball (meteor) had hit Kansas City...
Professor Pribram, at present of the University of Vienna, will lecture here throughout the year on history. He has written a large number of valuable historical works. After the war he was permitted to study the official archives at Vienna and as a result edited and first brought to light the secret political treaties of Austria-Hungary from 1879 to 1914. The English edition of this work was edited by Professor A. C. Coolidge...
...have but one result; to strengthen the feeling that the Russian Government is not yet to be trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...