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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictly on the verboten list, B. B. C.'s straight and accurate news broadcasts nevertheless are not music to Gestapo ears. Germans caught listening to them in groups of three or more, for example, may find themselves in concentration camps. The B. B. C. broadcasts should have been hard for Gestapo snoopers to spot, because they are usually spoken in flawless German, but the Bow Bell chimes proved a dead giveaway. Last fortnight B. B. C. decided to keep the Bow Bells at home for the Cockneys, substituted for German ears a softly ticking metronome instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alarums | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...these expectations are fulfilled the radio manufacturing business may cackle the loudest, but much of the egg money will be collected by the makers of dry cell batteries. Each portable radio requires one volt-and-a-half "A" battery (price: 50? to $1) and two 45-volt "B" batteries (price $1.50 each). "B" batteries in average use have a life of 250 to 300 hours, but the smaller "A" batteries may have to be renewed after 100 hours of use. The average portable's running cost thus is approximately 1½? per hour, about three times that of operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring & Portables | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...been tried in Caltech's aeronautical laboratories and in test rigs of its designer's own devising. Whether he had achieved a smooth flow of air over virtually its entire surface as National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has done with its new wing curve (TIME, May 15), David Davis modestly declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Perfect Wing | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...TIME. May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Geneva to Greenwich | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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