Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Network announced last night that its broadcasts to Eliot would be resumed "early next week" after the rewiring of circuits to the House is completed. Radios tuned to the local station have received only static since the transformer feeding Standish Hall and Eliot gave way under an overload last week...
...Arabs have vested interest in a static society," he declared, adding he had come to the conclusion that the Arab and Jewish societies are incompatible, and that partition is necessary...
...decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...
Poland's Russian-controlled Government also tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...
...same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality of the product without raising the cost to the consumer. And, like thrifty housewives, the dining hall stewards wonder if they can keep the cost of meals within their present budget. Students also, particularly veterans with a static income, are experimenting with the manipulation of a dollar which every day means less and less in terms of purchasable commodities...