Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After studying the hiss for a year, Researcher Jansky determined that it was the effect of a 14.6-metre wave at a frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays...
...Hollywood, Calif., cinema, sound engineers listed ten words barred from cinemas: Cohesion, distilling, aluminum, catastrophe, seething, felicitations, nemesis, procrastination, hippopotamus, and rural. Reason: most film actors hiss or swallow them...
...tentative draft. The platform is very brief, and will include a number of positive reforms not ordinarily characteristic of political platforms. Definite proposals on prohibition, war debts, and public utilities will be made. The Committee, headed by D. E. Scoll '28, includes W. P. Maddox, tutor in Government, Donald Hiss 3L, G. D. Reilly 2L, and J. T. Higgins...
...FEARLESS & YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash. Two laconic...
With the populace crowding the streets as far as a block away from the Palace to hiss the retiring Junta, cheer their new executive, and in the absence of hostile Aprista Representatives, President Sanchez Cerro told his Congress what he hoped to accomplish in his five-year term-if he lasts that long. With a dig at imprisoned onetime President Leguia. he cried: "Our national faith has been committed to treaties which diminished our territory Our treasury has been exhausted and is suffering from the weight of a tremendous indebtedness contracted under the hardest terms. The safety of the State...