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...with the short-wave range, seeking to devise means of secret communication. We evolved the 'direction finder' for spotting the enemy's sending stations and giving our own ships their bearings. I worked out a rudimentary (compared to now) system of 'narrow-casting,' using skeleton parabolic mirrors to converge my waves in a beam, thus saving generative power and preventing messages from being diffused 'broadcast' into the enemy camp. My long-wave work also continued and in 1918 I reached Australia from Great Britain...
...capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many...
...Premier's servants, lifting the coffin lid,, were startled by something more ominous than a mere grinning skeleton, which might have seemed appropriate. The coffin contained instead a handsome disemboweling knife beautifully encased in a white leather scabbard and resting on a ceremonial tray. By this expensive present the Kamiya Keiseisha (Opposition Party) pointedly conveyed to the Premier their opinion that he is a perjurer and ought to commit harakiri...
...main feature of the invention, the "window." This constituted a vast improvement upon the aluminum disc of earlier experiments. It was a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts of molecules, electrons...
...numerous scenes pitch through so many scattered periods of Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages. Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams...