Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place early next month by radio, between Harvard and Oxford Universities. First debate between the two since 1925, it will be carried on by two Oxford men in London, two Harvard men in Manhattan, will be transmitted by short-wave and rebroadcast in each country. Subject to be heard, static permitting: "Resolved, that in the interests of world prosperity the War debts be cancelled." Time allotted: one hour. Announcements last week pointed out that the cost, nearly $35,000, will be borne by National Broadcasting Co., with British Broadcasting Corp. cooperating...
More Years. Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, his eyebrows bristling, flayed frantic oldsters: "The radios of young people are tuned to rhythmic motion. Those of old people get mainly static. There are too many 'drop-deads.' The 'drop-deads' occur in the city. They may die on the golf links, trying to show they are all right, but they really occur in the city. Farmers haven't the time to drop dead. We overdo the subject of exercise unless we have had the advantage of training early in life. Unless you have been brought up to work in early life...
...fuel is ordinarily strained into an airplane's tanks through chamois or billiard-table felt, which are impervious to water. The process is slow and not without danger of fire, as the strainer easily becomes clogged with sediment and the funnel full of gasoline is constantly exposed to static electricity. Last week it. was disclosed that the Army Air Corps had adopted a filtering device with neither of these bad features, invented by Master Sergeant David Samiran, stationed at Wright Field, Ohio. The invention, known as a segregator, is based on the difference in specific gravity between gasoline...
...hotels, clubs, private homes. Wires, leased by the mile, would hook up New York, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo and many another city. Subscribers would pay between $25 and $100 a month, receive programs from noon until three a. m.- luncheon music, dinner music, dance music. There would be no static and, because Wired Music planned to hire its own artists, no interpolated advertising...
...because Camels are made in Winston-Salem, N. C., was the "signature" of his broadcasts) amounted to $1,600. It was consequently clear that Morton Downey had been the outstanding success of the radio season which, last week, had begun to draw in its antennae for the summer when static, storms and holidays make new attractions scarcer...