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...term " kilocycle " will eventually supplant " wavelength " in the jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player: "I told a London radio audience how I keep my stockings up in play, why I sometimes cry on the court, what it is like to be a cham pion at Wimbledon and what a false legend it is that depicts me as a slave of my father, who is really very kind and patient. 'How do I keep them up?' said I. 'I roll a piece of elastic around twice' ... 'I am laughed at that I cry. I do not, but I just have dust...
...paper how a Detroit woman had shot her husband dead because he bought an automobile instead of the home for which she was saving, and because he threatened to leave her and their three children. With tears in my eyes, I rose and went to the wireless room. By radio I instructed my Dearborn office to bail the woman out at any price. Friends, however, had already bailed her when my representative arrived...
...radio companies have sold these numberless sets with the implication that broadcasting would be a permanent thing. Of what use is a listening-in machine, if there is little or nothing to listen...
...Worldly Altars." Bishop Manning has ordered the removal of the radio amplifier which was recently placed on the high altar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan. Because of the great size of the Cathedral, an amplifier is really necessary for those who wish not only to see but to hear the communion service. But Bishop Manning ordered the amplifier removed from the high altar, as carrying modernism into too sacred a place, where only the cross and candlesticks and sacred vessels of the communion service belong. " Besides, communicants should know their service by heart, and it should...