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...loudspeaker amplifies sound, to make television pictures both bigger and brighter without reducing their quality. Suggested name: "Magnalux." ¶ A way to record television programs on inexpensive tape. Suggested name: "Videograph." ¶ An electronic air conditioner with no motor, pump or other moving parts. Specifications: cheap, noiseless, and small enough to be used in any room. Suggested name: "Electronair...
...mayor's example of successful, noiseless campaigning might lend confidence to prospective politicians. But Crane continues, "I'm surprised that more people do not run for political office. Many well-qualified men do not enter politics because they have not recognized this public life as a career. In most cases today, the man, through his own selfish desires, seeks the office; seldom does the office seek the well-qualified...
...engaged in a giant gamble. They are working, not on a U.S. version of the XXVI, but on what the Navy hopes will be an answer to Russia's super-subs: an atomic killer submarine. Longer and wider than present-day subs, she would be powered by virtually noiseless atomic engines. Fully submerged, she could cruise for 40 days off enemy sub bases, be able to walk away from surface ships. If all goes well, the Navy hopes to have a working model by 1953. The Navy is thus betting on a maybe of the future instead of trying...
...Wear noiseless footwear and, if the suspect knows you, wear a disguise...
...Noiseless as spectres, Delano and the two maidens slid into the [ruffians' den]; and the young lieutenant . . . instantly singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...