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...provided with three buttons marked "Present" (tuned to the station taking the vote), "Yes" and "No." Each button would close a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance. When a number of buttons were pushed in concert at the announcer's request, the abrupt increase of the power load would be recorded as a sharp peak on a graph in the power station, and from the size of the peak the approximate number of listeners voting at that instant could be calculated...
...need for wider scholarship aids, if American education is to fulfill its whole function in the community. A system of learning that excludes from a university education and hence from professional training, those whose ability and ambition is greater than their bank accounts does not pull its full load in a democratic society...
Among the first victims of this device, however, was the Postman. In fact on Tuesday he dumped the mail outside in despair. Apparently he was roundly sounded for this, because yesterday morning, with an unusually large load, be tackled the jig-saw brain-child of the M. D. again...
Last week's shipment was surrounded with the greatest precautions. Mint guards, Post Office inspectors, Secret Servants toiled all one night under the direction of Madam Director Ross carting the precious canvas-wrapped bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...toast and fruit juices are all right but that's about all. Drink lots of water. Don't take strong laxatives. The disease is not in the intestinal tract but in the respiratory system. Don't take liquor, of course, for it merely puts an extra load on the excretory organs...