Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHRB has once again been threatened with suspension by the Federal Communications Commission. It seems that our unfortunate brethren have been "over-radiating," a radio term for sending out a signal more powerful than the FCC allows. Under a law passed in 1932, the FCC is given power to order any guilty station off the air, even if, as in WHRB's case, it is doing no appreciable harm...
...likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends in the United States for leadership and in recognition of his signal services to the defense of freedom...
...Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes to carve up a few Persians...
Recent discoveries showed that on certain frequencies not all of the energy in the line-of-sight signal makes its escape into space. A small part of it is "scattered" downward. Electronics men compare this effect to the scattering of light from a searchlight beam. Not much light is scattered, but often the beam can be seen from a great distance when the searchlight itself is invisible...
...practice included signal drill defense against the JVs, defensive sets in the cage, and then back to the practice field for 20 minutes of offense, again versus the junior varsity...