Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the alternatives of building more ships and scrapping all equipment on hand, the Government compromised on a static program. The R-100, which made a laborious flight from Cardington to Montreal and back last autumn, will be maintained as a sort of flying laboratory (like the U. S. Los Angeles), but it will not be reconstructed or lengthened for additional lifting power as was its sister R-101. The mooring masts at Montreal, Karachi (India) and Ismailia (Egypt), erected as part of Britain's ambitious scheme to link the far-flung parts of the Empire by air, will...
Great are the difficulties facing radio television. Images transmitted over the air are sometimes hard to recognize. Static interferes with them; the usual short wave receivers are not satisfactory, yet no better form of receiver has yet been perfected. Great, however, is public interest. Some 15,000 television receiving sets are in existence. Fortnight ago in Manhattan station WGBS-W2XCR (Jenkins equipment) started broadcasting films, entertainments. Typical television...
...inauguration of WGBS-W2XCR, Pugilist Primo Camera showed his primeval face. Sir Guy Standing went through part of Mrs. Moonlight, Performers Peggy Joyce, Gertrude Lawrence. Frances Williams did skits which were broadcast and recognized, though distorted by static...
...Peace has been the constant object of Il Duce's policy: a political, social and economic peace among citizens, classes and groups, a religious peace and a peace among nations and states; a loyal and not a deceitful peace; an operating and not a static peace because it is aimed at preserving men and nations; a peace founded on truth. . . . [The agreement] represents a victory for no particular nation, but a victory for all the nations, a victory for equity and good sense, which is no less important in the relations between na- tions as in the relations between individuals...
...questionnairing Yale Daily News, Dr. Einstein wrote confirmation: "New observations . . . make the presumption near that the general structure of the Universe is not static...