Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taught infantry tactics at Fort Benning, served in Maine, San Diego, the Canal Zone. Of his classmates, a dozen or more had won stars while Van Fleet was still a chicken colonel. But he prided himself on being a "doughboy," ran the obstacle course with his men and beat them at rifle marksmanship...
Fortnight ago, aboard Capot in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Ted figured out just how to beat Eddie Arcaro (up on Olympia). He did, but Ben Jones's Ponder came up on the outside and beat them both (TIME...
...pound coxswain, William Leavitt, called a steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight...
...been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
...very effective, for the human ear can hear a human voice through noise of greater intensity. A better technique is to broadcast on a wavelength slightly different from the opponent's. The two waves react on one another. The result of this collaboration is a squealing "beat," part of whose ear-whacking energy comes from each wave. Still better is the technique of varying the frequency of the jamming wave so that it straddles the opponent's. This produces a loud, pulsating whistle. The Russians superimpose unpleasant noises (i.e., bagpipe squeals and ducks' quacking) on their jamming...