Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
...radiomen are trying to conquer radio's last frontier-the ultra-high frequencies. Most avid explorers of this wilderness are television engineers. But televisors cannot simply establish squatters' rights, they must compete before the Federal Communications Commission with other services that seek room for expansion (TIME, July11). Meanwhile the inventors and engineers are concentrated on the problem of stretching this narrow field, increasing its effective range beyond the horizon. RCA-NBC boosted its television transmitter to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building, claims reliable reception for its experimental telecasts over a radius of 43 miles...
Every Sunday night ten senders sat in a secluded room in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, concentrated gravely on cards and vegetables selected by a roulette wheel. Radio listeners tried to pickup the senders' thought waves, record the wheel's selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating, 1,250,000 replies came in from some 100,000 receivers. In positive language the announcer told the listeners that they were picking them right with remarkable frequency. But Psychologist Goodfellow, after studying the results of 15 broadcasts, pricked Telepath McDonald's iridescent bubble. Though he found...
Replacing the old Hemenway gymnasium, razed in February to make room for the construction of the Littauer Center, a new Hemenway gymnasium has been built, located on Massachusetts Avenue, scarcely a stone's throw from its former site...
Among the many features of this modern building is a library of 200,000 volumes with reading rooms, administration offices and stacks. It also contains an auditorium with a seating capacity of 200, seminar rooms for small conferences; and offices for professors, consultants, and secretaries. On the top floor is a lounging room which may be used as a lunchroom as well for informal meetings...