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...boats, launched even earlier than his own. On one a group of riggers was working; the mast had been set in from a high derrick on the dock and now one deck-hand was perched in the spreaders trying to un foul a tangle of lines, looking like a bird in a wintry tree. Soon his won craft--that little white creature nestling in the cradle on the shore--would slip down the rails that led into the water and slide over to have her own poles set in and made ready to spread her sails to the wind...
...McNinch, The 1912 Radio Communication Act antedates the birth of broadcasting. The license plan adopted at that time was a system of registry for the three radio groups then active: the Navy, private companies engaged in ship communications and the small group of early-bird amateurs. Anybody who applied got a license. Its issuance was part of the job of the Secretary of Commerce, a very small part until 1920 when KDKA (Pittsburgh) applied for the first wireless telephone broadcasting station license. The Secretary granted it a wave length of 360 meters, continued issuing other stations licenses on the same...
...bird sanctuary, left to the University by the late Dr. Robert Ridgway, for 49 years curator of birds in the U. S. National Museum...
...Halstead. Potentially this combination should go places, but to date it has failed to click. Halstead started the season off as an attackman, where he proved to be an effective scorer, but Stahley feels that he will do even better at midfield. Bill Tonner, Willie Flinn, Sully Sullivan, Lee Bird, and Eddie Greble have been battling it out for berths on the third midfield, and each one of them stands about an even chance...
...Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have been pointed out to Mr. Manson that an identical case came up in the U. S. in 1926 when customs officials denied duty-free entry to Brancusi's famous Bird in Space-a case decided in favor of the Bird...