Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening last week an operator at the Miami station of Tropical Radio swung his receiver to the 36-metre band. It was 10:38 p.m., and the static was as noisy as an applauding audience. But faintly the operator heard: SSS . . . SSS . . .-the code for submarine attack...
...Venice, Fla., a farmer complained of static in his radio. A repairman found two rattlesnakes inside...
...Static...
...last-minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...
...principle distinctions between the two imperialisms is that the British is already established, whereas success of the German policies of expansion would involve "enormous" cost to the world, Karpovich said. "The very fact that British imperialism is static is a point in its favor...