Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...
...present setup will carry hundreds of telephone conversations or one television broadcast (which cannot travel over ordinary wires). Its capacity can be multiplied easily. Bell intends to start work soon on a New York to Chicago jump-line...
Track coach Jaako Mikkola likes Freshman, particularly if they can high jump six feet or run the hundred in ten flat. At the opening winter track meeting this Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Varsity Club, he will attempt to coax as many of them as possible into the Crimson fold. All Varsity candidates are invited to be on hand...
...secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...
Sweet News. Decontrol of sugar, only food still under price ceilings, set many a housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...