Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duration. But the serious student who wants to get a liberal education in the humane tradition is on an almost hopeless quest. In the sciences he is perhaps worst off: the physics department has been converted into a technical school for the Signal Corps, and budding Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking men from more theoretical pursuits, and the best teachers are being drained off to Washington. In the humanities, the earnest searcher after truth finds himself...
Resplendent in shining gold pants and blue jerseys, the Navy pranced onto the Stadium grass yesterday with all the spirit of a high school squad, and ran through signals in a snappy, precise manner. Earlier the Crimson, with an equal amount of zip and drive, had pranced through plays, and had a look at some of Crowley's favorites. After the signal drills, sideline observers expressed the opinion that, while the Crimson gridders were more skilled at handling the pigskin, the Cloudbusters had it all over them in individual power and ability...
Married. Corporal Lawrence Tibbett Jr., 22, twin son of the operatic baritone; and Edith Ernestine Witte, 21, daughter of the late Schumann-Heink's late manager, Roland Witte; in Pasadena, where Tibbett Jr. is in the Army Signal Corps...
...signal drum is made by an expert drum maker who digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...high-frequency signal currents merely ride on the high-power current like waves on a river. The vibrations are drawn off at any point by a condenser or antennae system. This does not affect the power circuit which thus acts much like a special track for radio waves. As in radio, many frequency channels are available so that several conversations or signals could be carried by the same wire at the same time. By eliminating the need for separate telephone lines, many tons of aluminum, copper and steel could be saved. Chief obstacle: lack of materials for telephone instruments...