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...used as master control of the laboratory radio transmitting sets. Another unit, a 1000-cycle master oscillator is used to supply 1000-cycle current to student laboratories and researches not requiring extreme precision. This oscillator is controlled in frequency to one part in 100,000 by a thermostated magnetostriction rod...
...throne. Lady Bessborough sat at his left. Behind her stood the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, last-minute choice of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett for Government leader. On either side in full regalia stood representatives of the church and diplomatic corps, white-wigged Supreme Court. Black Rod (Parliamentary usher) left to sum mon the Commons, banged thrice on their door, bowed thrice when he entered, thrice when he left. The Governor General cleared his throat, read a short Speech from the Throne. As His Majesty's representative, Lord Bessborough...
Most memorable was the case of Pilot Arthur Rigney and his passenger, I. J. Escalante, who elected to take a short cut across the pathless swamps south of Lake Okeechobee on their way to the races, instead of following the established airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue...
...there for twenty years. Young children have kicked their heels before an open fire as mothers read them the tale of Rip Van Winkle. Barefooted urchins with long bamboo poles have wondered at the persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York...
...time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden rod...