Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demands special sending equipment, a special receiver. The benefits to the listener are an absence of static, a unique fidelity of tone. Standard broadcasting keeps the frequency of its radio waves constant, varies the power; FM varies the frequency, keeps the power constant. Static is a series of power variations-and FM receivers "level off" the variations. Each FM station enjoys a channel 20 times as wide as standard broadcasting's ten megacycles, which is one of the reasons for the fidelity of tone. High notes are rapid vibrations, and the most rapid demand wider channels than standard broadcasting...
Walton was finally rescued from the pear tree, but for the next three days he was under constant fire-never had his boots off, got only three hours sleep in 72. Once he had to plunge through a swamp, wade away from the enemy with machine-gun bullets pinging all around him. But all during those hours he somehow managed to hang on to his typewriter...
Peaceful Hands. These were some of the reasons-along with constant research by Navy and civilian scientists into new weapons-why the fleets of Admiral Ernest J. King are able to dominate two oceans. There was another reason to which Forrestal paid his respects: "The attitude of the men who have fought and who are still fighting our battles on the sea. . . . No man can stand in the presence of these young men on the eve of battle without a deep humility...
Virginia politicos were stonily silent. From grey Mrs. Carter Glass, the Senator's second wife and constant, devoted attendant, came a terse "no comment"; from the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, who had taken his last Senatorial oath at his Lynchburg home, in carpet slippers, came no public response whatever. But this week reporters heard that the question of resignation had been put up to him. The man Franklin Roosevelt once called an "unreconstructed rebel" gave his answer...
...fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...