Word: staticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipment. Daylight is unfavorable to wireless communication, but the MacMillian planes will be equipped with sets for transmitting 20-, 40-, 80-and 180-metre wave lengths. It is believed that the shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...
...Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating she was off the Galapagos Islands (730 miles west from Ecuador). Heavy static at the equator had interfered with Beebe's wireless...
Rabbi Levi, explaining that there could be no "static religion", denied the existence of an orthodox religion...
...Lost World. The brontosaurus is usually a static creature. Propped on rods and wire, he observes the world with a stolid papier-maché curiosity from the floor of some museum. He is observed with awe and agitation by the restless seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like...
...remains for some enterprising "Widow" to supply radio outfits for the vest pocket with directions for tuning in. Then diddling with the dials will replace the anxious chewing pens, and static will be the only excuse for a "flunk...