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Word: aerially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships," had said the Navy would have to revise its ship designs. Last week Mr. Edison did a neat straddle. Said he: ". . . Battleships were, are and will be for many years the backbone of our first line of national defense. . . . Apparently . . . the topsides of battleships may be damaged by aerial bombs. ... A fleet is at a very great handicap unless it has proper air support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Questions for Defense | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...down and cover your head with your arms." Newspapers urged the people to keep cool if & when death dropped out of the skies; told them that the one you hear doesn't get you, that Britain has plenty of fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns to drive off aerial Blitzkriegers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Anti-Blitzkrieg | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...better reception connect your aerial to the radiator or heating pipe). 8:00Porgy and Bess. 9:15 Jazz-Lab. 9:45 Masters of Music: Tschaikowsky; Serenade in C Major, Opus 48; 6th Symphony. 10:45 News and Interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK PROGRAM | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Paris certainly does not compare with London in warlike appearance. Practically no sandbags. The "blackout" is a blaze. No reassuring balloons pattern the sky, no robot aerial guard, fewer cars, of course. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The Ritz barman told me that they now feed alcohol to the cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Students will not have to make special attachments to the heating pipes to receive with ordinary sets. However, a ground on the pipes may hinder reception, whereas an aerial attachment to the radiators might improve the reception considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Chase to Inaugurate Crimson Radio Network at 7 O'Clock Broadcast Tonight | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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