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...amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing wind, and relay the sounds to a watchman five miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups are after are such contact noises as climbing, tunneling, wire-snipping and other signs of sabotage and trespass. Result: as good a watch in fog, blackout, darkness and storm as could be maintained by guards standing...
...farmer father died, the Wood family moved to nearby Cedar Rapids, where ten-year-old Grant helped support his mother and three other children by doing chores for the neighbors. After working his way through high school, he drifted about the Middle West as a jewelry craftsman, a night watchman in a mortuary, a country schoolteacher. In 1913 he managed to enter the night classes of the Chicago Art Institute...
...explosion ripped the room apart and blew a watchman off his seat in a far end of the building. The story rated a tiny box on the front page of the New York Times, which attributed it vaguely to "gasses...
Defeat. In Portland, Ore., a lost and befuddled gunman held up the night watchman of a store, commanded: "Show me the way out of this place," departed without taking anything...
...that in pubs near the camps even natives are as apt to say "Naz drowie" as "Here's how." And on the streets a Pole's "Good morning" is as likely as not to be answered by "Dzién dobry," with an "r" like a watchman's rattle...