Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice-Powered Radio. The Army Signal Corps has developed a radio transmitter that needs no energy except electricity generated by the speaker's voice. The trick would be impossible if the set used vacuum tubes, but all it has is a single transistor, which needs only a faint current. When the speaker's voice makes the microphone vibrate, it generates enough current to operate the transistor and put the voice on the air. The present model, small enough to fit in a telephone mouthpiece, can transmit 600 ft. Later models, says George Bryan, developer of the set, should...
This scrappy Big Red eleven won the game a very hard way. It disregarded the reports about its supposedly weak line, and pounded away at what was heralded as a powerful Crimson front wall. Quarterback DeGraaf, who did an excellent job of signal-calling, ran the majority of his plays in the center of the line, and then when the Crimson tightened in the middle used this pitch-out play to Jackson...
Beyond such hints, however, the discreet press cannot and will not go until given leave by the palace itself, a signal now expected in mid-October, when the royal family returns from Scotland and the announcement comes out of Eden's pocket for the public to read...
...good job last week as signal caller will again be the quarterback...
...American as tea and crumpets. Housewives spoke quietly of the merits of this and that. Playful animals won friends and influenced buyers. "The British." explained a visiting U.S. adman, "are crazy for animals." On I.T.A.'s second day, a tea commercial got tangled with a station-identification signal, another commercial inexplicably appeared twice, and the station itself broke down five times. Meanwhile, the government-sponsored BBC carried on smoothly with plenty of reliance on Mickey Mouse. By week's end. it was clear that the Americans had landed on British...