Word: intervale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One way to counter jamming is to use so many frequencies that the opponent cannot obliterate them all. The Voice now uses 36 stations and the BBC 25. They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on...
¶ Says Optimist Vannevar Bush: "I believe I said '10 to 15%,' and didn't specify the generation interval. At 10% and 30 years per generation [Reader McSweeney] wins hands down. At 15% and 23 years, I was about right.† At 15% and 20 years, the...
The acquisition of the apparatus heralds two major changes in CRIMSON policy. First, the 45-minute camera-to-press interval permits inclusion of photographs of unscheduled nocturnal events, where previously the consumption of time involved in sending a picture to be engraved in Boston by the tedious zinc-and-acid...
"What have been the consequences? Our college staffs are weighted with well-meaning but often dull and routine people . . . When one visits the classrooms of these so-called teachers, he is impressed with the aimlessness of performance. The only apparent purpose the observer can discover is to fill the interval...
As a result of this analysis, the dining halls department has cut down the interval between slicing and serving to make it impossible for any poisonous toxin to form.