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...radio reception is best when sunspots are least. Later he went to Delaware, Ohio as director of Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory, where he got the same correlations. The past year sunspots decreased about 50%, radio reception improved about 400%. Meteoric Static. When the earth swings through a swarm of meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber...
September is here--and thousands of sport writers breathe a sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
...attended by a crowd of 25,000 whooping, yelling Irishmen who shouted loudest when they saw a broken head. They nearly saw one in the first seconds of the game. When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys. Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears one, and considered the finest full forward in the world, made three goals for Tipperary...
Last week great Radio Corporation of America, with its swarm of subsidiaries, was fighting for its life before the Federal Radio Commission. After years of industrial supremacy this Goliath of the air had been driven back against the wall by a little David called the Radio Protective Association ("Against Radio Monopoly"). At stake were 1,403 Federal licenses whereunder RCA's National Broadcasting Co. Inc., RCA Communications Inc., Radiomarine Corp. of America and RCA-Victor Co. Inc., did business...
...defend his British Amateur championship last week. But there was a curiously neat compensation. Ready on the first tee of the Westward Ho! course at starting time was another U. S. celebrity even more famed & popular than Golfer Jones. A brownish, stocky little man, he attracted an unprecedented swarm of autograph hunters. A dozen ladies were so anxious to have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good and his manners, though slightly formal, better than those of most...