Word: phonographically
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...broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...machines. They sell and will continue for a while to sell many sorts of extra parts. But, unless they work a miracle, they cannot go on inventing new devices of improvement forever, and they will saturate the market for parts. Automobile companies have an unfailing market for replacement parts. Phonograph records wear out, and have to be replaced at a fairly rapid and constant rate, and fashions in records change. But the radio machine is singularly constant. It does not wear out. Its parts are singularly constant, too. You have to replace bulbs, but a bulb will last...
...people who haven't heard a joke in ten years. And all the other ingredients that go to make up a successful musical comedy are there in profusion. The music is catchy and pleasant?indeed some of the songs will probably afflict the flat-dweller's ear from the phonograph next door for months to come. Vivienne Segal has one of the best voices in light opera and uses it with effectiveness and precision. Richard Carle and Billy B. Van carry most of the comedy between them and do it well...
Progress in thoracic (chest) surgery has been phenomenal within the past few years, says Dr. Lilienthal. The development of adrenalin, the invention of the cardiograph (for recording heart action on smoked paper), the use of the phonograph to magnify stethoscopic sounds, electric photography of the heart in operation and other innovations have contributed to this result. But the increase of heart strain in our headlong urban life is giving the medical and surgical profession serious cause for worry. Organic diseases of the heart are now the largest single cause of death in the registration area of the United States, having...
...cylinder engine weighs only 20 pounds and is scarcely bigger than a phonograph motor. It develops 12 horsepower and the plane can fly 60 miles to the gallon. Yet so skilled is the design that Barbot flew to 6,000 feet in 30 minutes, and can attain a speed of 70 miles an hour...