Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
...mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble...
...yard high hurdles, Harvard grabbed an unexpected third when F. J. Mardulier '30 nosed out Heasley and Young of Cornell in a race in which Collier of Brown, the winner, fell short of equalling record time by one-fifth of a second...
...mile relay the strong Harvard team lost first place to the Dartmouth quartet after leading for the first two legs of the race. Andrews in third place and Captain Swope as anchor man won this victory for the Hanoverians approaching the record by three-fifths of a second. In this event Harvard was represented by V. L. Hennessey '30, Vernon Munroe '31, F. E. Cummings '30, G. A. Tupper '29. In the two-mile relay, the University team did not place...
...pole vault was the cause of much excitement when Sturdy, Yale's champion, and Berlinger of Pennsylvania both broke the intercollegiate record beating by far the mark made by C. E. Dunlap '30, Colyer of Cornell, and Pond and Cone of Yale who were in a quadrangular tie for third...