Word: forest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forest, longtime radio experimenter and inventor, newly-elected president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, exclaimed in his inaugural address...
Thoughtful national advertisers, long aware that radio advertising is powerful and comparatively cheap,* might well be moved by potent Radioman De Forest's warning, mend their ways. A father also of sound cinema, Inventor De Forest felt privileged to add : "In both studio recording and theatre reproducing a most deplorable result of engineering indigestion exists. The profession has bitten off more than it can chew, and the resultant bellyache must be endured by the theatre-going public...
...Briggs graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina, in 1896. Before he became a member of the staff of Teachers College he taught in public and private secondary schools, in Stetson University, and in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School. In 1912 he joined the faculty at Teachers College and now is Professor of Education. His attention is devoted mainly to the training of professional students in the secondary school field. He has written two studies entitled "The Junior High School" and "Curriculum Problems" and has made his influence felt by activity as a member of the Commission...
...unprecedented since Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole.† But air-minded citizens might dispute Admiral Byrd's preëminence by bringing in Pilot Bernt Balchen, who actually flew the Byrd ship to the South Pole, or by pointing to Endurance Flyers Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forest O'Brien who kept the St. Louis Robin aloft longer than any living thing has ever flown...