Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave of indignation about the pending restriction of its social activities swiftly spread among the Princeton student body, and Wednesday night 2000 undergraduates massed to hear student speakers attack the administration's proposed two-party schedule...
...young nightclub comics were feeling desperate. They had been on for ten minutes and it was still so quiet you could hear a gin fizz. The manager was waiting grimly at stageside to fire them. Suddenly they strode to a ringside table, snatched up some dishware and smashed it on the floor. The audience gasped, then shouted with laughter...
...making. To reach its own people over vast Russian distances, the Soviet government built many short-wave (6,000 to 21,000-kilo-cycle) transmitters and distributed about 5,000,000 short-wave receivers to listeners. This proved a strategic mistake. Under good conditions, short-wave listeners could also hear programs from as far away as the U.S. and Manila...
...simplest kind of jamming, says Herrick, is to compete with the opponent on the same wave length. This is not very effective, for the human ear can hear a human voice through noise of greater intensity. A better technique is to broadcast on a wavelength slightly different from the opponent's. The two waves react on one another. The result of this collaboration is a squealing "beat," part of whose ear-whacking energy comes from each wave. Still better is the technique of varying the frequency of the jamming wave so that it straddles the opponent's. This...
...Road. Linz Bros, does not wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been...