An American Red Cross canteen at a receiving station often offers men their first chance to talk over their experiences.

The receiving apparatus aboard the Queen Mary clicked sharply.

The operation of the receiving instrument is also readily understood.

The high pressures required for the economical use of transmission lines necessitates the employment of transformers at each end of the line; namely, step-up transformers at the transmitting end, to raise the voltage delivered by the generators, and step-down transformers, at the receiving end, to lower it for use in the various translating devices.

" "Can we break the receiving-line now, Lester honey, and go down with everybody?

Trains come in from the observation hospitals near the front, where all wounded now stay for five days until it is certain they have no contagious disease, and switch right up to the door of the receiving-room.

"The technical construction of the radio receiving set is neither difficult nor expensive; it is described fully in several books on the subject and I shall be glad to give any of you hints on the making and the operation of a receiving set.

But when the telegraph began to come into commercial use the operators at the receiving end noticed that they could read the messages from the long and short periods between the clicks of the receiving mechanism.

One of the silver plugs of the coherer was connected to the receiving wire, while the other was connected to the earth (grounded).

There are altogether thirty-three ships; but two of them, the Utrecht and the Gelykheid, were used as temporary receiving ships for newly raised men.

" While he was pocketing his change at the receiving clerk's pigeon-hole, a cab rattled up with a horse at a gallop, and Stephen Hawk sprang out.

The receiving outfits were completed; the aërials had been put up, one installed at the garage, the other at the mansion.

When he opened his mouth to speak, it didn't act upon the audience like chloroform, nor did the senate-chamber look five minutes after like a receiving tomb, with the bodies laying round promiscuously.

He also determined that the currents were strongest in the receiving coil when it was placed in a plane parallel with the sending coil.

The receiving reservoir outside the town gives a water surface of 31 acres, and contains 150,000,000 gallons; it is divided into two separate compartments, so that either may be emptied for cleansing or repair.

He set up a simple spark-gap, as had Hertz, and used a receiving device little more elaborate.

There are several minor receiving points of mental vibrations, regarding which I do not consider it worth while to go into detail, because of the technical features involved.

We next entered the receiving saloon, in which the Court Marshal receives the guests.

Conviction was without difficulty obtained against all the prisoners, and five were shortly afterwards hanged, the remainder receiving sentence of penal servitude, either for life or long periods.

Real events, objects, manifestations must pass through a human soul in order to gain poetic significance, and upon the significance of the receiving soul, not upon the "poetic" or "unpoetic" nature of the subject itself, depends the poetic significance.

Each human sympathetic nervous system contains many receiving stations where emotional vibrations are received, and where they tend to be transformed into similar feeling in the receiving system, unless neutralized by other mental and emotional states in the person.

Various systems, based on similar principles, involving tape transmission and the production of dots and dashes on a receiving tape, have from time to time been devised, but have generally not succeeded in establishing any permanent usefulness in competition with more effective instrumentalities which have been perfected.

You might draw that sum from the receiving teller, but that would occasion remark.

The vessel may be turned about in situ by opening one of the receiving tubes, according to the side toward which it is desired to turn.

" No more was said; for they were entering the room of which the tone and atmosphere were those of a receiving-vault.