Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Hardy, 64, famed aerialist; of heart disease; in Toronto. In 1896 he wire-walked across Niagara Falls. Though not the first,† Foolhardy Hardy was one of the rashest, capered, balanced on chairs...
...Schwab's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital is filled with electrical medical, and photographic apparatus. He has mares of long cable to carry brain waves from room to room. The patient is isolated and insulated in a compartment sorrounded by wire screens to keep out electrical and other disturbances...
...standing-room to the $99 boxes, agreed with Owner Woodward that Johnstown was a great horse. Taking the lead away from speedy little El Chico (winter-book favorite) at the first quarter, long-striding Johnstown streaked farther away from the field at every pole, breezed under the wire in a common gallop, with ears cocked as if wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico, on whom some million dollars were probably wagered in winter...
...turntable. He was not spinning it in order to make the unborn salamander dizzy - but to show that its tiny body possessed a sort of electrical shadow, that it could be used like a piece of electrical apparatus. The spinning salamander induced a feeble electric current in a wire, just as a big steam generator creates a big current...
...household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...