Word: beams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin slabs, usually no bigger or thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...
Disenchanted People. At his press conference Franklin Roosevelt exuded optimism: things were great, the war plants were wonderful, the Army was "grown-up." The President stressed his new line: the rest of the country is doing fine, only Washington is off the beam, only Washington lacks perspective and intelligence and a sense of proportion about...
...world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
...last week's meet, the Sokols and Turners outnumbered all other entries. For the fourth year, the Philadelphia Turners' chunky, bespectacled Pearl Nightingale flew off with the women's all-round championship. Only on the balance beam, where contestants go through nerve-racking slow-motion acrobatics, was Champion Nightingale bested by any rival. The men's all-round title went to stocky little Arthur Pitt of the Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City...
...casting a narrow but bright beam of light on the communication carried on between government and people. Without reflecting at all, necessarily, on the wisdom of the long-range policies carried out by such means, they are assisting what William Graham Sumner long ago grimly felt to be the one hope of democracy-that the men who profess it should know how it works. And in a democracy, under a two-party system, whatever political adroitness there may be in the release of news and information, it is a game at which two or more can play. Indeed...