Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late returns dwindled and the Smith vote of 14,626,823 did not reach the Harding and Coolidge totals of 16,152,200 and 15,725,016, respectively. But Smith received 5,479,450 more than any Democrat had ever received and there were other things to feel good about...
...recent campaign warmed up, it became fairly evident that there was a strong assent to the assumption that Catholics might be fitted for minor offices, or at least might be tolerated within them, but to reach up for the big gift of the people was an impertinence that would have to be not only denied but punished as well...
...that in the United States Catholics were to be Ishmaelites. They were not to be heirs of the fine things to which Protestants might rightly reach-rather they were to be the contented stepchildren that should be satisfied with the crumbs that fell across from their master's table...
...supposition, such a straight-going beam would be tangential to the earth's curvature and so never reach distant earth points where radio stations may be. By scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...
...theorical envelope of the earth's atmosphere, estimated to be 350 miles out. That it exists is the best current explanation for radio static, fading and silent pockets. Radio waves spray out from sending stations. Supposedly some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others reach the sets tardily by reflection from the Heaviside Layer. Probably the sprayed waves, going by the two paths, interfere with each other. One idea is that the Layer lies close to earth at the two Poles. The Byrd Antarctic expedition took along a Westinghouse ossilograph to find...