Word: staticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably as old as man," she said, "but most of the early formulas were magical and of no real utility. In France contraception on a large scale has existed for 100 years, due to the inheritance laws which share property equally among the children. Many blame France's static population on this, and the French Government has passed extremely strict laws against spreading birth control information, but France has no higher birth rate than England whose population increases 300,000 annually and where contraception is perfectly legal. In Holland the spread of contraception has been rapid in the last...
...reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static due to thunder storms in the summer months results in the fact that the average radio listener will decrease the sensitivity of his set in summer to lesson these disturbances with the necessary accompaniment of low audible intensity of distant stations. Hence the general impression of a low intensity accompanying...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...
...theorical envelope of the earth's atmosphere, estimated to be 350 miles out. That it exists is the best current explanation for radio static, fading and silent pockets. Radio waves spray out from sending stations. Supposedly some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others reach the sets tardily by reflection from the Heaviside Layer. Probably the sprayed waves, going by the two paths, interfere with each other. One idea is that the Layer lies close to earth at the two Poles. The Byrd Antarctic expedition took along a Westinghouse ossilograph to find...
Edison Radio. Thomas Alva Edison, who made the phonograph practical, for long would have nothing to do with radio because of static. His son Charles recently persuaded him to turn his wits to the radio. Result: a set to be put on the market next week. It contains two receivers, one for super-selectivity to get local stations exclusively, the other for sensitivity to pick up distant stations. Their machine also contains a phonograph...