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...Plymouth a radio was brought to Colonel Coolidge's bedside, and after hearing his son's speech in Manhattan he wired: "Dear Cal: Just heard you over radio. Congratulation on fine address. John C. Coolidge...
...Leon Campbell, of the College Astronomical Observatory staff, will deliver a 15-minute radio talk from Station WEEI, beginning at 6.45 o'clock this evening. Following the public educational program adopted by the Observatory staff early this fall, Mr. Campbell will speak in a non-technical manner on "Eclipses of the Sun, Moon, and Stars...
...strike through a pattern of holes on revolving disks. Each hole is the equivalent of a note of music. The light, interrupted so as to form the pattern of a tune, passes through the holes to strike selenium plates, setting up vibrations which are "amplified" as on a radio. When Inventor Grindell-Matthews placed his hand over one of the lights, a note was deadened; when all the lights were covered, all sounds ceased. The instrument has a tone like that of a little pipe-organ...
...altogether practical use has been found for the radio. Science has discovered, according to a report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
...there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor cars, the squeals of subways, the various rattles and reverberations of modern times make of life a jagged symphony written by a celestial Gershwin. And escape from it does not come in the home where someone must play a radio or a piano with the electric energy of eternity, nor does it come in the country where the roads are lined with the drums of legions vacating a major racket for a minor dissonance...