Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visual radio signals are received in a box mounted on the plane's instrument board, containing two white-tipped metal strips called "reeds." The reeds, placed side by side, vibrate vertically in tune with the two modulation frequencies used by the sending station. The "longer" reed (i. e., the one which looks longer because it vibrates with greater intensity) indicates the side on which the plane is off its course...
Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed University of Chicago scientist (light speed), was last week discovered playing a tune he had "written several years ago for a child." The composition, "Grandpa's Lullaby," has a lively air, no words...
Then give the Solitaire cowboys a set of blue cheaters apiece and set them on an opposite corner with a stern admonition to bear down heavy on something with a tune...
Jones' hymn is written to the tune, "Rock of Ages", and is entitled "Ave atque Vale". Honorable mention in the competition went to Donald Robertson '30, H. M. Parker '30, and to C. S. House '30, whose poetry was of a very high standard...
...Wildcats, having started their season late, have seen action in only one game in which they were defeated by Worcester Tech to the tune of 8 to 4. Bad weather hindered their practice before this game, however, so it is expected that a better developed outfit will take the field today than faced Worcester in Saturday's opener...