Word: hookup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...
...Century the most vigilant. Seizing upon the list of churchmen who endorsed the Goodwin Plan, the Christian Century got Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...
President Abelardo Rodriguez had something so important to say to Mexico last week that for the first time all Mexican radio stations were linked in a national hookup. He broadcast...
...University Debating Council will meet the Columbia College Debating Council in a radio debate, broadcast over a nation-wide hookup, on Saturday, February 10, it was announced yesterday. The debate will last thirty minutes, from 5.30 o'clock to 6. Harvard will speak from the National Broadcasting Company studies in Boston, and Columbia will speak from the studies of the same network in New York...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing over a nation-wide hookup of the National Broadcasting Company tonight from 6 until 6.30 o'clock. The program will originate in the WBZ studies, located at the Hotel Bradford. Sixty men, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, will sing in the concert...