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Even more important than sounds in the night is the jargon of the police. Instead of the familiar "Calling all cars," Dragnet uses the duller but truer "Attention all units," making sure that it is accompanied by a rush of air through the microphone (called a "squelch"), because most police radio dispatchers' are not educated in the genteel phases of commercial broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Real Thriller | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...administration has often been accused of trying to squelch the Undergraduate Council, an ineffectual group to begin with. It insists on censoring Princeton's version of the Confy Guide, and once boycotted all merchants that sold it--although perhaps with good reason: the booklet had written that a certain professor "jumps around on the lecture platform like a man with four cents in front of a five-cent water closet...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...record shows that the grandstand quarterback was wrong. Take his theory that Harvard should have used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston, were playing despite injuries which slowed them...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Roosevelt during the troubled days of World War II, a formidable poker player, above all, a man of diplomacy who was appointed Chief Justice to squelch the old feud between Black and Jackson which exploded in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: The Living Must Judge | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...summary action could squelch the family squabbles of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was off to a booming start. The day after he officially took over from James Forrestal, he called in the press to proclaim his plans for an enforced peace, "right now, in one bite, as far as the law will permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tough Talk | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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