Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term " kilocycle " will eventually supplant " wavelength " in the jargon of the radio fan. The U. S. Bureau of Standards has approved it. Abbreviate it kc. The frequency will be expressed in thousands of cycles per second-in other words, kilo cycles. To transmute wavelengths to kilocycles, divide 300,000 by the number of meters, or to obtain meters, divide 300,000 by kilocycles...
...floral pieces were taken in the chapel and later we took a photograph of Fellow Worker Paul Borgen himself in his casket. We expect to make picture postal cards and have them sold all over the country " to raise " a little money for the California fight . . . and FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT. . . . WE NEVER FORGET...
...Fan-Mail...
With the increase of comparative literacy, cheap postage, the typewriter and so on, the supposedly retiring tribe of authors share with cinema folk in the deluge of unsolicited advice, enquiries, compliments, brickbats, heart-histories. Share ? The most prominent are fairly drowned with "fan-mail." They are driven to printed forms of reply, to private secretaries who do nothing but " answer...
...Fan-mail. Nothing but fan-mail. And the whole human comedy ? ? tragedy ? farce ? exultation ? despair?coming in every morning to the breakfast-tables of a score or fifty not-so-very-extraordinary citizens of these states, done up in all sorts of envelopes, postmarked with the names of places of which in many cases the recipients have never even heard...