Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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District Attorney John Monaghan continued, last week, his investigation of the Philadelphia bootleg ring. During six weeks of activity he has arrested 33 policemen, a member of the State Legislature, sundry racketeers. He has set political trouserlegs a-trembling, has looked suave, representative Philadelphians squarely in the eye. Once he hustled for 44 hours without sleep...
...Even More Objectionable." Specific, technical points made in the Coolidge-Kellogg note, and of vital importance, are set forth in the following excerpts from the note...
...player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet...
...circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio receiving set. When a special generation at the central station sends waves of 720 cycles a second along the light wires, the receiver shoves a switch which connects the individual lamp with the lighting circuit; when the frequency is 480 cycles, the receiver pulls a switch that disconnects the lamp. All lamps...
Edison Radio. Thomas Alva Edison, who made the phonograph practical, for long would have nothing to do with radio because of static. His son Charles recently persuaded him to turn his wits to the radio. Result: a set to be put on the market next week. It contains two receivers, one for super-selectivity to get local stations exclusively, the other for sensitivity to pick up distant stations. Their machine also contains a phonograph...