Word: headlights
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Studebaker, which has carried on vigorously under the leadership of Paul Hoffman (and whose sales in dollar volume have recently been exceeded only by GM, Ford and Chrysler), offered a line of boldly streamlined sixes and eights. One of its features is a six-beam headlight. Studebaker's show was always crowded. No motor manufacturer made a more effective bid for popular interest...
...that by throwing their heads far back and depressing their tongues, their opened mouths were brought into a direct line with their straightened gullets. By getting his patients to do the same, the late Dr. Alfred Kirstein found that he could see far down the throat with a small headlight. That was in 1894. Three years later Dr. Gustav Killian succeeded in safely running a metal tube into a patient's lung and peering down the bore. Just as Elias Howe perfected the sewing machine by putting the hole at the front end of the needle, Dr. Jackson simplified...
...carried the oscillations to an antenna two centimetres (less than one inch) long. The antenna was fixed at the focal points of two curved reflectors which faced each other. One, facing in the direction messages were to be sent, was ten feet in diameter. The other suggested a motorcar headlight. The two reflectors concentrated the waves which the antenna emitted into a sharply defined beam. Two of these devices were set up, about 100 yd. apart, on each side of the Channel. The large reflector of the one functioning as a transmitter on one shore pointed at the large reflector...
...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...