Word: switched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...
...years' experimenting, this wireless telephonic conversation where the two parties could talk to and hear each other simultaneously. Hitherto messages could be spoken only one way at a time, but German engineers have eliminated the interference of sending with receiving antennae. Just a push of a switch and the listener could become the talker. The duplex set operated on a wavelength of 1,800 or 1,450 meters. It was found effective up to 700 miles. Other conversations were held between the Columbus and persons in their offices in Germany; and when the Columbus reached Manhattan, U. S. telephone...
Only last week a Radcliffe student lost her back hair in the New Lecture Hall, and was fortunate enough to find it later, just across the street. The record book tells no more of the incident. But what is the entire story? Was she asleep at the switch...
...Philippines, where water or land duty may fall indiscriminately to Air Service officers. Its versatility is obtained in very simple fashion. The fuselage or body is shaped just like the hull of a flying boat, but underneath is attached a folding landing gear. When the pilot presses a switch, the landing gear folds rapidly upwards with the wheels coming to rest smoothly in the sides of the hull, with a reserve control for landing on a field...
...rest is more or less negligible. Mr. Edsall leaps to arms, and proclaims, in a curious metaphor, that the gods of the University are sleeping at the switch. Mr. Doughty writes four pages far above the common ken; Mr. Elliott contributes a story; and there are a few pallid lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling...