Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governments. Final decision: a dry point etching by Alfred Hutty. Print No. 1 went to Dr. Welch. The rest of the edition (45 copies) was scattered over the world to medical institutes, colleges, museums. As the prints of the etching were presented to various medical groups, ceremonies were held similar to the one in Washington...
...apparatus demonstrated consisted of a microphone, similar to a telephone transmitter. In this, sound waves (in the air) were transformed into electrical impulses. These currents were intensified with a battery and discharged into the body. Seeking the path of least resistance the currents probably passed through blood vessels. Arriving at the organ of Corti (one of the essential organs of hearing) in the inner ear the electrical impulses apparently stimulated the auditory nerve (which carries sound impressions to the brain), gave the sensation of sound...
Another cynosure of the show: a new price-list by Fokker (affiliate of General Motors), showing reductions of from $4,000 to $13,000 on every type of plane (except the 32-passenger giant) to meet similar reductions recently announced by Stinson...
Those who visited Holy Cross Cemetery last week found that the body of Priest Power had been reburied in a new grave. Around it stood a seven-foot fence. Around the old tomb and the whole Power plot were similar barricades. Posted nearby were grim-faced State police. Manifestly neither Church nor State intended to permit helter-skelter demonstrations. Announced Cardinal O'Connell: "Those who go to the cemetery for just and pious reasons must be prepared to obey strictly the regulations, else they will be excluded...
Professor Copeland, the "one and only official reader" of the Harvard Club of New York, has for 25 years entertained members and guests of the club with his annual readings, similar to those held at the Union each Christmas. The dinner, announced by W. G. Wendell '09, club secretary, will be attended by prominent writers of the day, and should prove 'a feast of wit and reason...