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...alone. Out of all these patents, two main systems have evolved, the step-by-step and the panel.* The telephone subscriber cannot tell the two systems apart; the dials and the act of dialing look identical. But in the step-by-step system the mechanical combination necessary to ring the desired number is built up directly, by separate impulses from the dial. In the panel system, a more complicated mechanism (in panels) receives, interprets and sets up the proper electrical impulses...
Many have been outside protests against the iron ring of military alliances which France has forged around herself. But almost the first protest from within the iron ring was heard last week in Brussels. To assembled reporters Emile Vandervelde, Socialist leader, onetime Foreign Minister (1925-27), announced...
...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...
...Ring of the Löwenskölds (pronounced "Levenskelds") is a trilogy, but its three novels are all self-contained. The first two-The General's Ring and Charlotte Löwensköld-have already been published; the new one, Anna Svärd, finishes the story of Karl Arthur Ekenstedt and Charlotte, the girl he was too proud to marry...
...Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel the best has been made of a universally bad bargain. The Ring of the Löwenskölds is the Literary Guild choice for January...