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...House": "Fellow countrymen, the Army . . . true to Democratic tradition . . . has performed its duty! . . . Now it is up to you to fulfill the mission begun by the National Army. The Saenz Pena electoral law has given you the most powerful arm of Democracy [voting by secret ballot]. . . . Let us now sheath our swords and let ballots rule...
...high-voltage cables, the insulation consists of paper tapes wound around the copper conductor, and impregnated with some heavy insulating oil: the whole is enclosed in a lead sheath. During the process of manufacture, air is inevitably occluded within the insulation and later while the cable is in operation gases are evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable...
Dances. The Highland Fling, the Irish Jig, Sailor's Hornpipe and the Sword Dance were among the dances. Dancers were judged for ease and grace, correct costume, expressive "hauling" and "heaving." The sword dancer, who dances over a naked sword crossing its sheath, must not touch either, but must dance fast, with abandon. Best-Dressed Highlander. He must own his clothes. His shoes must be low-cut brogues without buckles. The kilt must be made of his clan tartan, worn plain, no bows, no ribbons. The sporran (bag) must be of mottled leather or fur. If fur, the animal must...
...Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
...voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which are thoroughly dried, and then impregnated with insulating oils. This paper insulation is then surrounded with a lead sheath. Such cables behave most erratically. They may be tested in the factory at four or five times their working voltages, and yet in three or four months' service they may explode in several places...