Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday and Friday evenings for several weeks to come 25 people in New York will concentrate their attention on certain objects or ideas in the attempt to transmit them to a larger group of persons, many of whom are members of the University...
...volume of litigation is thus not with the courts, but with the legislatures. The evil resides not merely in the number of laws. It is in badly drawn laws. It is also in the compromises of legislation where the contests of opposing policies are satisfied by ambiguous phrases which transmit the difficulties of legislative bodies to the courts, who are left with the burdensome task of discovering the legislative intent, when actually there has been no defined legislative intent...
...sense communication. There have been many famous mediums who have possessed this power., There is one, estimable lady still living in Boston, who while in a trance revealed the most extraordinary knowledge, which seemed to come from some deceased person. Both by hand and voice she was able to transmit messages seeming to come with certainty from persons no longer in the flesh...
...geophone, an instrument invented by the French during the War to detect sapping operations of the Germans underground, has been developed by U. S. Engineers for rescue work in mines, gauging tunnel borings, etc. It contains diaphragms like a seismograph, which transmit the most delicate vibrations to the observer's ears. Sledge pounding can be detected 3,000 feet through solid rock, and ordinary talking through 50 feet of coal...
...characteristic organisms, always present in Kala-azar are called Leishman-Donovan bodies (from the British surgeons who discovered them in 1903). They are most irregularly shaped and spotted little beasts, in one stage developing tails and called flagellates. How they get into the body or are transmitted from man to man is unknown. They are normally only a parasite of man and the bedbug. While this fact would seem suspicious, various thorough investigations have not been able to prove that the bedbug is the transmitting agent. It is believed by many that some species of biting and bloodsucking insect...