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...claimed, as a loud speaker, reproducing broadcasted piano tones with a clarity unattained hitherto; reproducing also the human voice, without metallic sound or microphone roar. The inventors boasted of overtures from leading piano manufactures, pointing out that manufacturers of player pianos face the imminent expiration of their basic patents...
...speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose...
...considering the essays submitted in the CRIMSON'S contest the Committee of Judges sought an immediate and practical solution of the eating problem which should have a sound basic principle and be capable of future development and elaboration. Each judge real the ten essays, criticised, and rated them. The Committee then met and carefully discussed the essays in detail...
Recent reports from Sloane laboratory at Yale reveal that over 20 scientists there are testing the strength of the atom injecting foreign particles into the atom and bending the atom out of shape. Since this invisible unit of matter is the basic substance of which everything is composed, the physicists are really engaged in a study of fundamentals. When the exact nature of the atom is finally ascertained, the results will be of the utmost importance in every field of science...
...basic reason for the undeniable antipathy toward the Jew is the division of his loyalty between the society in which he lives and that indefinable Jewish group consiousness mentioned above. This places him apart to a certain extent from the position and duties in society of the non-Jew. One often hears the remarks at Harvard that the average Jew contributes nothing to the life of the University. He only takes. In a narrow and superficial sense this is true, and it might be applied to the average Jew and the world. But the Jew has made great contributions...