Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light, no red in room, patient facing west! The specimens are placed on aluminum electrodes in a small, round box called a "dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate rheostat" and a "measuring rheostat" for determining the wave rate "ohmage" of the specimen. These are connected to an electrode on the forehead of a healthy human being, called the " re-agent," who stands stripped to the waist and barefooted on two metal grounding plates. The doctor "percusses" the abdomen of the reagent, i.e., thumps the back of his left...
...machine is not for sale, but is leased for $200 down and $5 a month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy;" the " sphygmobiometer," which demonstrates the " wave-metric index " of liquids and minerals and is used as a divining-rod for locating subterranean oil; the " electro-bioscope;" the " reflexo-phone," a loud speaker arrangement which makes sounds indicative of certain diseases. Dr. Abrams predicts that these machines will be perfected to the point where people can stand...
After lunch he laid the cornerstone of Cleveland's new public library, which function President Harding was to have undertaken had he lived. Noticing the intertwined Star Spangled Banners and Union Jacks, Mr. George said to a crowd estimated at 25,000: " As long as these two flags wave together I have confidence in the future of this old world...
...theatrical managers have seized upon this national wave of immoral curiosity. They now have three ways (if one is to judge by fallible experience) of catching the communal eye of an avid but selective public. One is the judicious compound of the Semitic and the Hibernian*; another is the conservative use of the name Shakespeare; the third is the extravagant employment of courteous incontinence...
SEVENTH HEAVEN ? A faithful soul, lifted by a wave of love off the reefs of despair, is deposited at last in the calm lagoon of love. Helen Menken is the star; War-time Paris, the locale...