Word: switched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patrick Campbell after a twelve-year absence from the U. S., greybeards revived the legends of her fiery temperament and explosive tantrums. They recalled how, in 1902, she ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic in proportion, infelicitous in performance. She embarrassed. Her play...
...fashion of a cinema film. The possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some day bring before the eyes of a man in Kankakee, Ill., the coronation of a king in Westminister;* it might enable folk to "go to the theatre" by turning a switch. Immediate possibilities: "air letters" (facsimiles) transmitted faster than they could be read; radio-cinema...
...submarine is running the paravane is beneath it, the wire (which has electrical wires in its centre) crossing the hull of the submarine has a tendency to make the paravane curl under it, puts an extra strain on the winch of the towing destroyer, thus releasing a dynamometer switch and blowing up the paravane which is filled with lyddite. The cost of these explosive paravanes is, including the winch and apparatus, almost as high as that of a torpedo. Once paravane is streamed it is a very risky, if not impossible job to get it in without blowing...
...Immortality I mean what the spiritualists mean, persistence of the undefined 'Soul' after physical death. A little illogicality, I cite the 4,000-year-old Californian sequoia trees as suggestive of a possible afterlife for that part of man which is separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services...
...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...