Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depends on the fact that fluids (like blood) conduct electricity more or less easily according to their hydrogen ion concentration. But the differences in conductivity between good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...
Died. Bernette Gernsback III, daughter of Hugo Gernsback, Manhattan publisher of science and radio journals; when hit by a taxicab while stooping for a lost penny; in Manhattan...
...Radio seethed at Post 20, boiled its way up 22½ points to close at 297½. Short, stubby, Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, Radio specialist, rumpled his red hair, blinked behind his glasses. Far away in Chicago, Arthur W. Cutten, bull operator in a dozen stocks, declared Montgomery Ward will reach 1,000. Grey-haired Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman stood at Post 2, noted U. S. Steel transactions in his book. They totaled 160,000 shares...
Conductor Walter Damrosch reported returns last week from his radio concerts for school children. Fully 1,000 letters a day have come in, "show that this country is really hungry for fine music. And not only the children, but the grown people. The older people who are listening in to my programs are a charming and delightful offshoot which I did not contemplate. Their letters show that the mothers and grandmothers, and in some cases the fathers and grandfathers listened in at home while their children heard the concert at school. Altogether it looks as though this might grow into...
...blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable cameras click...