Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio static has at last been smoothed into silence. So said the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week to a group of scientists and industrialists gathered for the dedication of the new $1,325,000 Goodyear Research Laboratory in Akron. To prove it, Goodyear displayed a small box which, hooked up to an ordinary receiving set, chokes the fiercest static to a mere whisper...
...emergencies, lives depend on their fast reactions. One WAVE, on duty during a thunderstorm, discovered that static was jamming her radio. Quickly she grabbed a pair of code signal lights, blinked directions to two planes approaching from opposite directions, averted a bad tangle...
...military theorists the South Pacific was still a static battle area. But in the day-to-day run of patrols and minor battles, new heroes were born, new air tactics proved by flyers grown skillful and canny in the school...
Spotty and somewhat static, Three's a Family too often repeats its good jokes, half-kills their effect with bad ones. But it has its very funny moments. Really hilarious is a scene where a half-dead, three-quarters blind old baby doctor (well played by William Wadsworth) gropes his way around the apartment, diagnosing...
...admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol and too little as a person to permit the literal dramatic treatment attempted in this production. A complete realization of the "song...