Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry H. Rogers, Manhattan sportsman-oilman, father of famed Millicent Rogers, Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...
...slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...
...What!" expostulated the inquisitive one, frantically searching about in his pockets for pen and paper and a propitious beam of light from the flickering are light overhead...
...motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image, a 16th of a second...
...Excellency, sleek black President Charles D. B. King of Liberia is referred to by President Coolidge as "my great and good friend" (TIME, Feb. 18, 1924). Last week the great and good President had reason to beam with Afric joy. His Congress?composed exclusively of property-owning negroid Africans?has just voted to extend a helping hand to an Akron rubberman...