Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the exhibition, a tube in the television apparatus became overheated. It was necessary to wait 15 min. while it cooled off. Actors Tone and Barker were then seen and heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than...
...m.p.h. It was designed by President Thomas Conway Jr. of Philadelphia & Western; Felix Pawlowski, Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at the University of Michigan; and Brill Co. experts. President Conway, meeting competition by Pennsylvania R. R. and Reading Co., expects to beat their time of 36 min. from Norristown to the heart of Philadelphia. He is chairman of a committee of electric railway officials which is spending half a million dollars on research to make electric cars faster, more sightly...
Mary Fontanna of Caruthers, Calif., thrice winner of the Pacific coast championship. She drew 146.1 Ib. in ten 3-min periods. The race was nip-&-tuck; it was only by her decimal fraction that Mary Fontanna beat Gloria Miller of Pacific...
...President released last week Hon. Hu Han-min, onetime president of Nanking's Legislative Council, imprisoned last March when suspected of disloyalty to the President. In a spasm of patriotism Hon. Mr. Hu embraced President Chiang and set off at once to persuade his friends of the Canton Government to join the Nanking Government. Good news for China was a patriotic communique soon issued by Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, sometimes suspected of Red leanings. Declared Mr. Chen, backing up President Chiang...
Score: New Hampshire 29, Harvard 45, Dartmouth 86, M. I. T. 88. Winner, Quimby (D); Darling (NH), Barrington, (NH), C. F. Woodward '35, A. S. Pier '35, Rines (NH), N. M. Goodhue '35, Short (NII), Holby (MIT), Glover (NH), Chalmers (MIT), Burke (D). Time 17 min., 51 1-5 secs...