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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Kansas City, Mo., the Endeavorers conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
...about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep). The pen indicated on a moving strip of paper the continual variations in the beat...
Colored television has become possible because Dr. Ives's colleagues at Bell Telephone laboratories invented a photo-electric cell more sensitive to light than the usual cell. The usual cell depends on the ionic action of potassium and hydrogen. The new cell uses sodium with sulphur vapor and oxygen...
...Rockefeller's usual remark about writings like this book, is: "If I step on that worm I will call attention to it. If I ignore it, it will disappear...
When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...