Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thermoelectric sextant, using infra-red rays, invented by Paul Humphrey Macneil. The infra-red rays are in the long-wave end of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are really heat waves, capable of penetrating clouds. The Macneil Sextant has a curved reflector that collects and potently focuses infra-red rays on a thermocouple, two pieces of metal which when heated even one-millionth of 1° give off a tiny flow of electricity. This flow is enormously amplified, measured by a galvanometer. When the curved reflector is pointed directly at the sun, the flow of electricity is greatest and the navigator...
...fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind up the saga with Youth, The Storm...
...Southern Cross, Sir Charles and his three companions trooped into Abercrombie's escorted by a Fokker pressagent. Silk pajamas at $15, shoes at $12, brushes, razors, etc. etc. were spread before them. Who would pay the bill-$1,299? The pressagent's answer was a wave of the hand. The Fokker company would see to that...
Killing Looks, Magnetic Personalities are physical realities if Otto Rahn's (Cornell bacteriologist) measuring devices have not deceived him. Living plants and creatures emanate an electromagnetic wave which is shorter and more penetrating, although much less strong than ultraviolet light from the sun. These waves now seem to be the "psychic auras" which spiritualists have vowed perceiving. Ghosts may be realities. Onions radiate comparatively powerful waves from their tips. Strongest human radiations proceed from the finger tips of the right hand. Lett finger tips also produce a comparatively powerful emanation. One woman complained that flowers withered at her touch...
...snatch your diploma," read an announcement last week to the graduating class at Colgate University. "Be calm. Take your diploma in the right hand. Tip your cap with your left hand. Don't wave it, but just...