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...horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said...
...remained in touch with a naval station until 15 minutes before the disaster, when he signaled that he was drawing up his wireless aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant lightning rod furnishing the easiest and most attractive path for any electrical disturbance. Unlike the lightning rod, it cannot lead the charge safely to mother earth...
...month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy;" the " sphygmobiometer," which demonstrates the " wave-metric index " of liquids and minerals and is used as a divining-rod for locating subterranean oil; the " electro-bioscope;" the " reflexo-phone," a loud speaker arrangement which makes sounds indicative of certain diseases. Dr. Abrams predicts that these machines will be perfected to the point where people can stand on street corners, drop a coin in the slot and get a complete diagnosis...
...Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...begun is the new "high-grass " Senator from Indiana. As The New York Evening Post sapiently remarks: "A Democrat who can recapture Indiana two years after the greatest Republican landslide in the annals of American politics is under no necessity of putting up a Presidential lightning rod...