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...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...notoriously promiscuous figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been powerful and, in the main, propitious; although today she receives the same reverence that small boys tender to Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast...
...will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with the American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical struggle as a battle of the strong. And we want our children to be strong enough to sustain it before they begin it. The solution of the problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means...
...itself a factor. There is a natural time for the innocent pleasures and preparatory studies of youth, and a time when a man should be occupied in his life's work. A century ago a certain boy was sent to college by his father at a tender age that he might be too young to be dissipated. In his case the precaution seemed to a later generation needless, but it was not without good sense...
With the State Department's approval, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy last week ordered 1.400 U. S. Marines to join their 1,415 companions already in Nicaragua. Instead of troopships. Secretary Wilbur assigned a minelayer, a submarine tender and three cruisers to transport the men; an oiler and an ammunition ship to carry their supplies...