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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel II. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, does not confine his activities to the classroom and Widener. Every Monday afternoon this fall he will be found in the studies of shortwave station WRUL (formerly W2XAL) directing a foreign language newscast aimed at Europe...
...provided by Marcel Francon, instructor in Romance Languages; and the Italian, by Charles R. D. Miller '23, instructor in German. Professor Cross himself will prepare the German text. Their words will be shot into the ether via WRUL's new directional antenna, part of the equipment which makes the station one of the strongest shortwave units in the country...
Professor Cross is an old hand at this game. It was last spring that he began writing experimental news broadcasts in German for W2XAL, a non-commercial station owned and operated by the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation...
Every man had a station on a gun crew or in the gun director, working on ballistics. They received actual experience in anti-aircraft firing, star shell firing, blackouts, and searchlight drills, as well as in the ordinary mechanics of firing...
...example, the men who did the original work on photoelectricity, the phenomenon that now magically opens restaurant and railway station doors and performs a thousand sorting jobs in industry, were all pure scientists. And the man who first clarified photoelectricity by describing it mathematically was none other than Albert Einstein...