Word: staticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
...particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that the present American example of stupid boredom is but a transitional period of intertia, a static state of incubation, preparing the way for an eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores...
...only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This fact, together with economy of power consumption and the proven superiority of short waves in penetrating belts of static, is what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number. It means for radio what the discovery that many simultaneous messages could be sent over one wire, meant...
...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...