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...York end the receiving apparatus consists of an electric lamp behind a thin metal wall, placed in a strong magnetic field. The wall forms one side of a narrow slot through which the light passes. The fluctuations in the current passing through the magnetic field move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right...
...made by the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a man in a state of rest and in still air cannot endure indefinitely a temperature higher than 90° F. with 100% relative humidity. Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures lose more weight than thin men, but, as a rule, can stand high temperatures longer and complain less of exhaustion...
...born Lajos (Louis) Kossuth; it was the same year in which the great Napoleon Buonaparte was made Consul for life, that thin edge of the wedge that was to secure for him the designation "Emperor of the French" and much legendary glory. It was the epoch immediately preceding that in which the spectre of the die-hard Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, was to stalk eerily throughout Europe, scattering all but good, honest supporters of the Holy Alliance...
...What famous officeholder had his health so impaired by his arduous office that his lunch was, by physician's orders, one apple, sliced thin??William Howard Taft who while President grew to weigh 320 pounds from lack of exercise. Now he walks three miles to the Capitol every morning, smiling all the way, takes a bath, and then goes to the Supreme Court Chamber, with the result that he weighs about 60 pounds less...
...current justifications for denominationalism become thin when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful." The Wesleyan Methodists are the "following the Doctrine society," the Lutherans the "doing the Doctrine society," the Limited Methodists the "be with me society," the Congregationalists the "common sense society...