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...necessary to use alternating current because direct current causes chemical action at the electrodes, which would cause gross errors in the measurement. Professor Jones uses as the source of the alternating current an audion vacuum tube hooked up with capacities and inductances so that it "howls", in the vernacular of the radio fan, although in this case it might better be described as "singing" because it gives a beautiful pure note of single frequency, and can be made to give any note desired within the range of audibility...
...Stevens who, in real life, is known as Appanoose Jim to his fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood...
...letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely to the same person in answer to a demand for surrender, telling the Riff leader in Arabic vernacular to go and eat coke; but circumstances alter cases, and Raisuli went so far to the other extreme as to offer his youngest daughter in marriage to Abd who, apparently, accepted the offer. But Raisuli, Lord of the Mountains, as he was called, was not to get off so easily...
...When Texas rejected the 19th Amendment, the Fergusons joined in the opposition. Mr. Ferguson, in his forceful vernacular, told just what he thought of women who wanted to vote...
Pierre de Ronsard, "Prince of Poets," bright, particular star of the Pléiade,* who that is not French remembers him? How he hymned the Bourbon monarchs in the voluptuous vernacular of the French Renaissance; how he invented gorgeous adjectives and ingenious flowers of imagery to describe the monarchs' wives and female friends; how he (mythically) quarreled with Rabelais over a point of style; how Queen Bess of England sent him presents where he dwelt in his fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon...