Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lengths of the radio waves used in ordinary U. S. broadcasting range between 200 and 547 metres. Short-wave broadcasting uses waves around 50 metres in length. Last week "micro" rays only 18 centimetres (7.09 in.) long carried two-way conversations across the English Channel. International Telephone & Telegraph Laboratories and Le Matériel Télephonique of France made the test. Simple equipment did the work. Sending and receiving devices were practically the same. Each device consisted of a vacuum tube which transformed telephone frequency into the high micro-ray frequency of 1,600,000,000 oscillations a second...
...another great war which commanded his intense and invariably enthusiastic attention last week. In 1917 this same active, able scion of a rich Ohio family had left his freshman class at Yale to join the U. S. Naval Air Service. Attached to the British near Dunkerque on the Channel, he downed six German planes, won three prized medals for bravery. He came home a boy of 19 and the U. S. Navy's one and only ace. The "war" to which he flew this year was the Navy's annual game off Panama in the Pacific...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...Correspondents nearly all believe that if the British Parliament (on a recommendation from the Round Table) grants India full "dominion status," the Gandhite Independence Movement can be diverted into that channel. If, however, the name only of "do-minion status" is granted (with its implicit "right of secession" temporarily reserved), there is about an even chance that the Indian National Congress can be horn-into quiescence...
...Because of the ten-year increasing flood of anti-Prohibition propaganda which has, during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started...