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...feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely rotted through...
...Hammond's trip was the approval which the Italian Government gave to his system of narrowcasting, or secret radio. This system employs short wavelengths, superimposed with high frequency modulations. Unless a receiving station was properly fitted to receive these modulations, or to use his own phrase, "to straighten out the dents in the rays," the message could not be made...
...done. Even when the main structure is erected and in use, there will be odds and ends to tend to, to straighten up and tidy away or put to possible use. Last year, for example, contests in several sports between winning class teams of the University and Harvard of Princeton were promised, which, for one reason or another, never materialized in some cases there were obvious difficulties, but this year it is hoped that these can be overcome. Outside competition adds an interest, an excitement, an incentive which is both desirable and valuable. That for the near future. For today...
...British Government has now recognized Sovietland, and in London, Bolshies and Laborites are in daily con-ference?when the Soviet delegates can be induced to give up seeing London from the bus-tops?trying to straighten out their economic and financial rela- tions...
...Leland's statement cites the many times he has tried in vain to see Mr. Ford to straighten out the tangle, and flatly declares that the latter has openly refused to fulfil his part of the agreement. This attitude on Mr. Ford's part is attributed by Col. Leland to a desire for revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn...