Word: deforest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which I experimented much. The year 1905 also found me perfecting and patenting a horizontal directional transmitting aerial and predicting that I could soon reach the antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently of 'phonofilm' fame). In pro nouncing his decision in my favor, Judge William K. Townsend of the U. S. Circuit Court was at pains to dispel all doubt as to whether or not I was actually...
...Harris of the Senators (Washington, D. C., American League baseball team) handed a ball to the President, who pegged it, short and sure, to Walter Johnson. Thirty-two thousand fans applauded. The Washington season opened. Score: Washington 10, New York 1. ¶The President appeared and spoke through the DeForest Phono-film (see "SCIENCE). ¶Accompanied by Editor Col. George Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went to a musical review at Poli...
...their friendships, plumbers soldered sound opinions with a friendly pipe, draughtsmen were seen slipping away, arm in arm, for a draught. At meals they listened to famed speakers: Harvey W. Corbe President of the Architectural League, Manhattan; D. Evert Waid, President of the American Institute of Architects; Robert W. DeForest, patron of the arts, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, famed British designer of the Queen's Doll House, who arrived from Delhi, India, to be presented with the farm gold medal of the Institute. Many were the plans discussed, many the startling novelties proposed...
Cities shall no longer spring up like amorphous patches of skunk cabbage, misshapen, loutish, by every tuppeny estuary or frail river. The growth must be directed intelligently if the U. S. is to avoid such "atrocities" in city-planning as its present metropoleis. "New York," declaired Robert W. DeForest, "is the world most horrible example. . . ." Boston, planned like a squatter's settlement, cannot recover good form for less than $50,000,000. Washington and Philadelphia, braced in infancy are straighter And the city of the future...
Among those who have accepted are: Thomas W. Lamont '92, George W. Wickersham, Dr. George E. Brewer '85, Henry W. Taft, Dr. Charles H. Herty, Robert W. DeForest, Newcomb Carlton '17, H. Bayard Swope, John H. Finley, Arthur M. Howe, Kent Cooper, and Sidney E. Mezes...