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House league standings remained static yesterday as the Lowell quintet wound up its schedule with a decisive 53 to 31 win over the Leverett Bunnies. Capitalizing on their first breaks and board supremacy, the Bellboys steadily added to their early lead to clinch third place on the court ladder. Fred Donehoa registered 23 points for the victors...
...techniques are still varied and far from smooth. Some telecommercials are as outdated as the nickelodeon's between reel slides: static, leering mink-coat models or unwinking concentration on a bar of soap. Some are working along promising lines: most admen admire Lucky Strike's cartoons and its battalion of animated, marching cigarettes...
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...
...strange blend of the popular mood of the day, and the very real individuality of each board. If the former did not lead the Crimson into inconsistencies, the latter certainly did, and for such meandering the editors were occasionally taken to task by older, wiser, and more static journals. But, as the editors in the spring of 1917 replied to a criticism of this kind in the old Boston Transcript: "We could not, for the sake of consistency, maintain a policy which in conscience the majority of the board could not support." Three wars, and the aftermath...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...