Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unknown. The name is Loren McKinney and you won't even find him listed with last year's Freshman squad, for he de-injury. He's tops in ends on the devoted his time to studies instead. This year he shot to a first team berth like a bolt from the blue...
Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
When Al Smith bolted the Democratic Party, he simply said he would "take a walk." Analysts of Franklin Roosevelt's straddlebug epic could find in it, beyond the threat to bolt if he does not like the 1940 nominee, no threat to found a third party. But it did definitely, for the record, announce that Franklin Roosevelt will dictate the next nomination, or else...
...facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...described as changing the length of the radio wave. Amplitude modulation changes the wave's strength. Interference noises can simulate amplitude modulation and therefore disturb signals broadcast by this system, but they do not simulate frequency modulation. Thus frequency-modulated signals skip neatly past the interference, whether lightning bolt or icebox motor. One catch is that ultrashort wave length of limited range must be used...