Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revised Hopkins radiovoting method explained last week, both these difficulties are met. When the studio wants to learn how many sets are tuned in, it broadcasts a musical tone of a definite pitch. In the Hopkins attachment on the receiving sets a reed adjusted to this pitch is set vibrating. That action trips a relay circuit, starts a small induction motor which gradually adds an inducted load to the general power load. Overloading is thus eliminated and the voting current is recorded on a special meter. This automatic operation calls for no action on the part of the listeners...
...Darling Daughter (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr., producer) is an inconsequential pleasantry exhibiting Peggy Conklin, a cynosure three seasons ago when she bundled in The Pursuit of Happiness, as a serious young woman with journalistic ambitions which have no outlet for the moment except acting as her mother's secretary. The horn-rimmed glasses and blue jeans in which she first appears vanish quickly, but not the raspberry-ice freshness of manner which saves her cutenesses from being altogether silly. A topical note is injected into this warm and sprightly comedy when she asks her father...
...Woodward, both tall, strong righthanders, the roster, as thus far reported by assistant manager Gray Thoron '38, numbers: pitchers, Thomas W. Casey, David 8. Cohen, Douglas Mercer, Ray F. McPherson, Dick H. Mudge, Jr., Philip C. Starr; catchers, Robert Fulton, Ernest S. Merrill, Peter E. Pratt, Edward W. Reed, and Russell J. Ryan...
...honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise Senator Borah, who had just stood up for the Court, Attorney General Cummings whom the Justices have often worsted, and several gentlemen who, although the august Justices did not know it, might soon be their colleagues, notably Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed and Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg. Few of the guests had suspected that there was any special reason for the President's good humor, that within three days he was to shake his guests of honor in their seats...
...Thomas Reed Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, and one of the nation's authorities on constitutional law, when asked for a statement said simply, "No." Be said he would elaborate his opinion further in an article in a technical law journal...