Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with fluid, lined with feathery nerve endings. These nerve endings pick up incoming sound waves, relay them to the auditory nerve, which carries them to the brain...
...following events are scheduled: high and low hurdles, 3 o'clock; broad jump, 3:20 o'clock; 100-yard heats, 3:30 o'clock; medley relay, 8:45 o'clock; 100-yard finals, 4 o'clock; mile run, 4:10 o'clock; mile relay (four sprints), 4:25 o'clock; high jump, 4:35 o'clock...
...Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news was already jamming the wires...
...Because of amateur radio's deadly possibilities as a medium for espionage, by last week almost three-fourths of the world's radio "hams" had been ordered off the air. For the 50,000 U. S. hams thus left virtually talking to themselves, the American Radio Relay League, to which most good hams belong, last week advised: 1) all international contacts should be confined to experimental or incidental topics; 2) no news should be relayed from one country to another; 3) refrain from discussing topics which might have a military significance...
...hope that it will be of interest to you, I relay to you a report from my roommate. We are both endeavoring to enter the Foreign Service of the U. S. and when we noted in the newspaper that a bellboy here in Washington had passed the written examinations without preparation of the formal variety, a delegation of one, my roommate, went snooping for whys...