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...Dutch border: 1) On dark nights "passeurs" would go through the wire wearing rubber gloves and rubber socks, dodging the sentries. 2 ) Bargemen from Rotterdam to Antwerp would find means of concealing dispatches. 3) Belgian peasants whose farms touched the frontier were sometimes induced to pick up and transmit papers secretly tossed over the wire at night...
...promised motors capable of driving ocean liners at 50 knots. In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers. In the last decade his annual utterances have been mostly rehashes of previous interviews, with something new every three or four years. In 1924 he was planning to transmit power by radio. In 1927 he was scheming to harness sea power. In 1931 he would make all fuels superfluous by tapping cosmic energy. Last week Dr. Tesla announced a combination of four inventions which would make war unthinkable...
...week arrived sober, youthful-looking John Grieg Latham, Australian Minister for External Affairs. He was dined & wined, received by the Emperor in audience and taken in state to inspect two cotton mills. To interviewers he announced : 'I am willing to hear any proposals on matters of trade and transmit them to the Commonwealth Government." Japanese were convinced that his trip was to pave the way for a separate Australian Legation in Tokyo to handle Australia's interests apart from those of Britain...
...name proposed for an unknown substance whose removal from living cells seems to explain anesthesia. When certain water plants are soaked in distilled water their cells become unable to transmit stimuli, apparently because "R" is dissolved out. So the effect of everyday medicinal anesthetics may be due to a removal of "R" from human cells.-Drs. J. V. Osterhout and S. E. Hill of the Rockefeller Institute...
...contemporary implications of his teaching is not the desire to keep it free of exaggerated irrelevancies. It is the fear of being considered superficial and "popular." Or else it is the lack of ability to appreciate the vitality inherent in his subject, to say nothing of the ability to transmit a sense of this vitality to his students...