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Happy as the great review closed, George V, as Lord High Admiral of England, ordered "Splice the main brace!" This used to mean that every man aboard got a ration of rum nicely calculated to make him feel elated without getting him too drunk to be of further use- ⅛pint. Today those who do not wish to become elated can ask for a limeade, never mentioned by the King without picturesque additions...
...associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud...
These systems go through the Southwest where year-round transportation can be maintained easily. Elsewhere in the country the hurried traveler can splice his own air-&-rail way by hopping from iron horses to "tin geese" (see TIME...
...cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...
...clerks and villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...