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Word: jam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could hardly have squeezed better. And on opening night last week, a jam-packed audience in the Lemonader's little opera house in the basement of the (Greenwich) Village Presbyterian Church let him know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Very Moonish | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Into Plowshares | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...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 the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Growling | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Riding the Beam. Rockets, also replacing antiaircraft guns, will rise from the ground to chase the bombers. They will probably ride a movable radar beam kept trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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