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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed that the universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
Undergraduates and officers of the University may obtain free tickets for grandstand seats at the dedication exercises of the John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge at the H. A. A. and the office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider issuing a new sort of postage stamp which husbands and wives could stick upon each other and automatically become divorced. . . . The rush to obtain divorces since newspaper publicity was prohibited (TIME, Dec. 20) has been so great that in one day 17 cases of this nature have been presented before me. . . . Some new and ingenious system such as the Postage Stamp Divorce simply must be devised to help us keep the dockets clear...
...tests taken at Harvard are a part of the nationwide project of the First National Studios to obtain 10 college men of representative type to become moving picture actors. From each of the 33 colleges to be visited, ten men will be chosen. Of this number, after careful consideration of prospective ability, character and apitude of each of the contestants, ten candidates will be chosen who will be given an eight-week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with...
Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...