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Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
From the first premonition of a college career to the many wise saws and instances that aid him across the channel from secondary school, the Freshman is the victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into...
...foreground was a large cylinder, its sides removed, revealing a substantial piston rod about five inches in diameter. Just beyond was a large square hole in the floor, affording a glance down to the gloomy interior of the plant through a maze of pipes...
Harriet Hoctor, one of the few musi- comedy dancers who is still billed as premiere danseuse, justifies the title by leading the chorus, all attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles. And there is Ruth Etting, a pensive blonde who sings one of the best tunes Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ever wrote ? "I Still Believe You.'' Children will hugely enjoy Simple Simon; their elders may profitably join them...
...asked to set aside the State agency's order as confiscatory. Immediately the Court is confronted with not a legal but an economic question: What is the "property" the corporation complains the State has deprived it of? To find an answer the Supreme Court must plunge into a maze of controversial economic facts and theories, on which the Constitution throws no light. Its judges become economists; hard-and-fast law is left behind...