Word: magnetism
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...installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will, of course, be in quick transmission of pictures for newspaper use. By it banks can verify signatures of foreign tourists...
Broadway Gold. Broadway is pictured as " the gilded boulevard, the jewelled magnet." Elaine Hammerstein plays the chorus girl who steps in the Broadway mud over her shoe-tops. Elliott Dexter does the rescue work. Glittering junk...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...
...walk to and from work--at three miles an hour. The lucky fellow who got near this new transit line--the moving street--could travel six or eight miles an hour. Of course, as many as could, moved near the routes. They were attracted, just as a magnet attracts. Just as the iron filings flow to the magnetic lines, so the people swarmed along the new line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion of course: Rush hour congestion; then housing congestion; Why say more? What happened next? Why other lines were constructed...
...heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative manner. Arthur Elliott does a rare piece of character acting as the tyrannical paternal head of the household, although at times his apoplectic anger seems a trifle overdone...