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...keenest, most widespread quotation hunt in the history of a nation of ardent quotation pullers and hunters raged last week all over the British Empire. King George started it by winding up his globe-circling Christmas Day broadcast to his peoples thus...
...recollection of the circumstances in which the lines were written are vague," said Miss Haskins primly. 'T didn't hear the King's actual broadcast Christmas Day but I heard the quotation read in a summary of the speech. I thought the words sounded familiar and began to ponder where I had heard them before. Suddenly it dawned on me that they were from my little book...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera of Eire, renewed I. R. A. activity was bad news. No one has insisted more emphatically that Eire and Northern Ireland should be one nation, nor has he been anything but independent of Great Britain. Last week, in a radio broadcast to the U. S. in which he urged that peace in Europe be negotiated now, Mr. de Valera slipped in a request for U. S. moral support "to our efforts to have the partition of our country immediately brought to an end." But most embarrassing to the Prime Minister would be a violent attempt...
Atomic Radio. Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi and associates of Columbia University showed that individual atoms send out radio waves in the broadcast and shortwave ranges-one and one-half to 1,000 metres. Naturally the energy of each wave is tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio...
...Last week Magistrate J. L. Barnhill of Halifax announced that he had been "very much put out" to hear, the very night the troopships left Halifax, a broadcast from Germany announcing that the ships had left, and how many. After the ships' safe arrival, he gave suspended two-year jail sentences to three women who pleaded guilty to writing indiscreet letters to persons in the U. S. about ship movements at Halifax...