Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
Detroit's WWJ was born August 20, 1920. Broadcasting was then mostly stutter and static, and reception was mostly a matter of cat's whiskers and crystals. When the station was just eleven days old, its listeners were invited to hold "wireless parties" in their homes, to hear the first U.S. broadcast of election returns. A month later, WWJ (then called 8MK) aired radio's first vocal program, a soprano singing The Last Rose of Summer...
Until public opinion, and particularly that in the more advanced of the democracies, fully recognizes the stark truth that peace can never be static; that it will never exist except as the result of the continuous effort and the unfaltering will of a majority of the peoples of the world; that its attainment can only come about as the consequence of Infinitely greater human effort than that which will be required to win the greatest of all wars, the search for peace will not be crowned with success...
...which this highest of all ends can best be achieved have been advanced by some of the most enlightened leaders of thought throughout the censures. But we may well fear that vast numbers of people still think of the word "peace" as in plying a condition which is essentially static. They still think of peace as being negative rather than as a concept which can truly be only positive...
...much static, too busy, very sorry, apologies to Orator Churchill and Canoneer Carter, a frown at the Associated Press...