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...Upon the roof is a chart house topped by a meteorological shelter. Here are set up the indicating and recording instruments, one of them, for wind, being particularly interesting...
...Keeping the chart house company on the roof are two new radio towers and several brick pedestals where students will acquire practice with surveying and astronomical instruments. Some one was ingenious enough to have the pedestals made in varying heights, that tall and short and average students might all work comfortably...
Sport. Everything you could possibly want to know about the Maryland Hunt Cup, including a chart of the course, anecdotes of all the famous races, complete statistics (1894-1931), photographs of all the winners, is included in Gentleman Rider Stuart Rose's The Maryland Hunt Cup (Huntington Press: $7.50; limited edition...
...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
...Four times so far, at six-month intervals, planes of Alaskan Airways have overtaken the drive with supplies for the lonely herders. Last week General Manager Arthur W. Johnson started home from a visit to the Manhattan offices of the parent company American Airways Inc.-to chart routes for the next flight, which they expect to make next month, with three tons of food & supplies...