Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applaud the innovation in British recording engineering (Crimson, Sept. 25) extending the upper limit of recording frequencies to "14,000 kilo-cycles." We congratulate, you on your use of the words "hush-hush" in this connection, since the upper limit of human hearing is generally conceded to be roughly 20 kilocycles...
Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
...inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo in the black market) was not for folks whose Government-controlled monetary allotment was limited to 2,000 francs a month for all purposes...
...that, only the U.S. Government knew. But last week the Government took a big stride toward getting Allied news heard in Asia. Not waiting for the lately authorized shortwave station to be built in California, the Coordinator of Information bought General Electric's newest, finest, 100-kilo-watt transmitter (which has been operating under the call letters WGEO in Schenectady since September) for shipment to San Francisco.* There it will become a powerful partner of G.E.'s present 50-kilowatter, KGEI, in short-wave broadcasting across the Pacific...
Destruction of University College, its hospital, and most of the publishing-houses in London was reported by Fulton. However, both the British Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral escaped serious harm when 50-kilo bombs crashed through their roofs...