Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most ingenious and almost uncanny are the uses of the telegraphone. One may record a steady, even speech of about a half an hour, or he may catch fragments, separating them by brief intervals of silence. At any time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger...
With the coming of his loud-speaker apparatus Professor intends not only to allow his students to hear their own defects of speech, but to study the methods of projecting the voice for purposes of broadcasting. The experiments at the telephonic transmitter in Holden Chapel will without much doubt procedure before the microphone. Professor Packard's background seems peculiarly fitted for such valuable experimentation. For a time he acted with Professor George P. Baker, '87 in the 47 Workshop Company, then while still serving as Professor I. L. Winter's assistant in the department of public speaking, he produced...
Discussing his speech with a CRIMSON reporter last night he said that he would speak on "both political parties and the tariff, more particularly the Democratic party and the tariff question. I will treat problems of the recent past and of the present which bear on the subject. Then I will go into the questions which will present themselves during the next Presidential campaign." After his lecture Professor Taussig will be very glad to answer any questions put to him by members of the audience...
...done everything possible to safeguard the lives of in submarines. Yesterday, even as President Coolidge insisted that the investigation of the disaster he pushed to the almost. Senator La Guardian of New York, after spending thirty-two hours in the sister ship of the S-4, fore up the speech he had written attacking the Navy Department...
...mean the champagne? Impossible--she had had only one glass--her first, the Vagabond could have sworn. No, decidedly, she couldn't mean the champagne. Some rejoinder was necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic country. Free press--even the tabloids cost, or retail at, two cents. Free lunch--scarcely to be classed among the best things of this mortal sphere. Free love--ah! was this a hint? Did the fair damsel suggest amorous dalliance. Impossible. There was no mistletoe. Besides amorous dalliance...