Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are some 3,000,000 battery-run radio sets in the U. S. today, most of them operating on 2-volt tubes designed in 1930 to operate on heavy-duty, "air cell" batteries. Key to the 1938-39 portable is a low-drain, 1.4-volt tube developed last year. This tube, requiring slightly less "A" voltage and only 90 (instead of 135) volts for the "B" circuit, uses about one-third as much current as the 2-volt tube...
Designer Davis' wing, flush-riveted and smooth of contour, had justified his prediction that it would be 20% more efficient than any in the air today. The product of ten years of work, it had been tried in Caltech's aeronautical laboratories and in test rigs of its designer's own devising. Whether he had achieved a smooth flow of air over virtually its entire surface as National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has done with its new wing curve (TIME, May 15), David Davis modestly declined...
...Gentlemen. I want to remonstrate with you. I want to plead with you to stop this promotion of the open-toed, open-backed shoe for street wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...
Caps and gowns (which became academic garb when they were prescribed for medieval scholars to cover their rags, are still worn daily at such places as Oxford and Fordham University) came into fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored...
Brought up in a substantial Episcopal family, Heywood Broun is one of the ablest Bible-quoters in U. S. journalism. At Harvard he was most influenced by a course in the Bible as English Literature. He is today happily married to a Catholic second wife-Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley ("Connie") Broun. But "Connie," firm as she is in dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen...