Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange blend of the popular mood of the day, and the very real individuality of each board. If the former did not lead the Crimson into inconsistencies, the latter certainly did, and for such meandering the editors were occasionally taken to task by older, wiser, and more static journals. But, as the editors in the spring of 1917 replied to a criticism of this kind in the old Boston Transcript: "We could not, for the sake of consistency, maintain a policy which in conscience the majority of the board could not support." Three wars, and the aftermath...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...
...should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...think marriage was made for an artist or an artist for marriage," declared Hit Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire), himself a bachelor. "He has to keep moving around. . . . There's something static about marriage...
...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...