Word: basely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of the U. S. have forgotten with what dread their revolutionary ancestors heard that Newfoundland had been made the war base of the British fleet. Soon the harbor of St. Johns teemed with captured U. S. merchantmen. In those days George Washington worried about what was happening in Newfoundland. Last week it was George V who worried...
...southern station of the Harvard Observatory situated in Peru has now been moved completely to South Africa because of unfavorable weather conditions at its location in South America. A base has been established 14 miles from the town of Bloemfontein and it was announced yesterday that the contract has been let for the construction of seven buildings which are to house the telescopes and provide for offices, a library, servants quarters and garage, as well as a residence for the superintendent...
...British Admiralty chose last week as the time to announce that it has let a ?7,750,000 ($37,665,000) contract for the completion of the British naval war base at Singapore to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of London...
...great Singapore Base will be a direct threat to Japan and the Philippine Islands. To announce it last week, when the British Foreign Office was dickering with the U. S. about disarmament (see International), seemed a piece of sheer British Sea Dog bravado...
...stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio receiving set. When a special generation at the central station sends waves of 720 cycles a second along the light wires, the receiver shoves a switch which connects the individual lamp with the lighting circuit; when...