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...nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary of the Advocate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom to T. S. | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Working like a telautograph, the Audimeter is designed to record with a stylus on moving tape every twist of the radio switch and dials. It registers programs received, whether a program was tuned de liberately or found by dial twisting, whether it was heard through the full period, tuned out at any point, or kept on only after unsuccessful search for something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Audimeter | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

What first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mr. & Mrs. | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...fashioned earthquake recorders there was a heavy mass whose movements, amplified by a system of levers, were transmitted by means of a stylus to a recording drum. In modern instruments the stylus is replaced by a beam of light which makes its zigzag tracks on photosensitive paper. Actually it is not the heavy mass which moves, but everything else-earth, observatory, revolving drum -while the weight, which is freely suspended, remains still because of its inertia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quake-Proof Clock | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make a curved graph on white paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-Ton Brain | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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