Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Hamtramck's teachers won the support of the local Taxpayers Association and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. When the Board tried to increase its badgering of teachers by rescinding the Keyworth Code, the Circuit Court threatened a contempt action. Fifteen hundred students demonstrated against the Board...
Broadcasting with its lighting circuit set-up on a near-nightly schedule, the Network is able to carry a greater volume of dramatic and variety material to the House-dwellers. Its programs, planned, written and "put on the air" by undergraduates, consist of skits, news bulletins, classic and popular music, quizzes, and interviews blended in the same proportions used by coast-to-coast syndicates. One special service in the past has been the broadcasting of important conferences and addresses from the Lowell Common Room and Emerson...
...defenseman, was both an offensive and defensive weapon for Coach Johnny Chase last winter, in the most successful ice season enjoyed by the Harvard six since the days of Austie Harding. Mechem's potent body-checks and frequent solo sorties made him a man to be feared throughout the circuit...
Biggest bolt ever recorded: a flaring snapper which hit the 585-ft. smelter stack of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., in the summer of 1941. Its current totaled more than 160,000 amperes; its estimated pressure exceeded 15,000,000 volts. (Ordinary home circuit: 110 volts...