Word: static
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...Static, the imp that squeals in a radio, has long had a habitat in the polished cabinets of Victrolas. People found that in radio his mewing could be partly controlled, but in talking machines, even expensive ones, his intrusion was unavoidable. Of course it was not really static-the blaring, nasal voice they heard through the playing of a record-but a sound composed of the hum of the operating motor and the vibrations of the mica diaphragm of the soundbox. Driven to desperate shifts by radio competition, the Victor Talking Machine Co. last year set about eliminating this privy...
...Demonstration of the feasibility and advisability of taking radio equipment into the North, and of the efficiency of short-wave sets in overcoming the belt of static that affects long-wave communication from within the Arctic Circle...
...Tibetan border, nothing of a positive nature occurred in China or about China or out of it. The crisis, which has been for some weeks in existence (TIME, June 15 et seq.) was still present, but was rapidly taking on a traditional Chinese aspect and becoming stolid, static...
...telephone. This permits the use of much weaker currents in the Bridge itself, thereby minimizing disturbing effects due to heating and electrode reactions and increasing the range of usefulness of the apparatus. Another improvement is in the proper grounding of the set to eliminate errors due to electro-static capacity to ground...
Antioch and other educational experiments are important and interesting because they show that education is not static, but they can never comprehend all of education and religion. The elder universities will continue in cloistered seclusion to prepare students for life, is Antioch prepares them in the midst of life...