Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
...extensible rear bumper which a parking motorist can crank out like a bustle to a distance of several feet, to prevent another car from parking too close behind...
...eyed Jewish Comedian Eddie Cantor made a personal appearance at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church, preached on Christianity and Democracy. Excerpt: "Christianity and Democracy go hand in hand. Go to church and practice true Christianity, because edifices like the one we are in tonight will live long after Hitler and Stalin are forgotten. Some one should tell those two birds that you can't put God in a concentration camp. To my humble way of thinking, there are too many Gentiles in the world and not enough Christians...
Before sailing for France with the 15th Canadian General Hospital contingent, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, addressed in Boston the supreme council of 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Masons, predicted: "Scientists, like musicians, cannot do their work under fear of air raids and other disasters. The uncertainties of war will bottle up the products of creative minds and many of them will crack. There will be an incidence of mental disorders, because the person of highly sensitive nature will be affected...
...with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their lives...