Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last 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...
...waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the waves; an amplifier hops them up; a second transmitter beams them to the next hilltop relay. They make eight jumps to reach Boston...
...start. As a college boy he had won national fame by swallowing 42 goldfish (washed down with chocolate soda); he then dropped out of sight. This week he was looking for a house in West Hartford, Conn, to settle down as boss of emergency messages for the American Radio Relay League (radio "hams"). Nobody held his past against him, and he never touched the stuff any more...
European students and American instructors launching the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization this summer agreed "that it is a necessity to continue the project for at least five years." This is the report that Clemens Heller 2G, father of the seminar, will relay to the Student Council this month...
...usual since the Revolution, joy moved in strictly organized channels. More than 100,000 dancers, singers and musicians had been ordered to Moscow to provide entertainment; they roamed the city in brigades, performed on huge wooden stages or at street corners, supported by sound-trucks. There were relay races around the town, boat races on the river, eight straight hours of spirited horse racing...