Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet System of Representation", Professor Holcombe, Harvard...
...Republican leader will not have to deal, because he was elected only to fill out a dead man's term ending March 4, is New Mexico's Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo. Born nearly 70 years ago in Chihuahua, Mexico, Senator-elect Larrazolo came to fame by the escalator system of teaching school, clerking in courts and a district attorneyship. He was Governor of New Mexico...
Meanwhile His Majesty pressed two momentous buttons. The first started the first daily newspaper press ever operated in Albania. The second turned on, for the first time, an electric street lighting system in the ancient Albanian capital, Tirana...
...Frederick August Kolster, who has contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied...
...Kolster's beam differs from Guglielmo Marconi's. In the Marconi system a number of wires at each side of the sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...