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...Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves to assume a corresponding pattern. At the receiving end is a magnet, moved by the waves, which controls either a beam of light acting on a photographic plate or an ink drawing instrument. The main benefit of the process will, of course, be in quick transmission of pictures for newspaper use. By it banks can verify...
...spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results of his efforts in his own hand. Careful examination shows that the writing corresponds almost exactly to the signature at the end of the last will and testament of William Shakespeare. At last, apparently after almost four hundred...
...this there would have to be thirteen months of twenty-eight days each with one (or two) days left out in the cold. But is America to be dictated to by business, to put an efficiency expert in the presidential chair? If all environment is pressed into a regular pattern, then human beings will be only paper figures and geniuses and charming women will no longer exist. Rather let easter move from early March to late April and February twenty-ninth come but once in four...
...this point the educational aim comes in to save the day. If the movement can bring about a method of developing the child according to his possibilities rather than to a pattern set by some social class", of giving him truths rather than myths, much may be achieved. Certainly this makes for individuality more than any possible outside reforms could do. If other motives are ever to replace the personal gain motive, education of this nature is the means. And if class and race strife is ever to give place to peaceful endeavor, it will come through teaching the child...
...monopolizing 40% of feminine attention and boycotting other dictators of dress, the Butterick Co. and five other dress pattern concerns affiliated with it through consolidations or joint stock ownership, were prohibited by the Federal Trade Commission from selling patterns to dealers for resale at stipulated prices. The five affiliated companies: Federal Publishing, Standard Fashion, Butterick Publishing, New Idea Pattern, Designer Publishing, all of Manhattan...