Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity Debating Council will contest a bevy of Radcliffe orators today at 3 o'clock over Station WAAB and the Mutual network, a national hook...
...Princeton Varsity football team will arrive at the Back Bay Station at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon and journey by bus to Soldiers Field, where they will work out in the Stadium from 3:30 until 5 o'clock...
...Down I went. They had a band to meet me at the station, but I ducked it. Before the game I told the coaches that fighting would mean no 15 yards, but out of the game for the players. We started, and after a couple of minutes, two fackles squared off. My assistants moved toward the exit--they were used to the game--and the crowd milled from the stands...
...same in fundamental principle (emission of light by electrically excited atoms) as natural auroras, or as the glow caused in neon lights by electric currents. The scientist pointed out that existing super-power installations, such as Cincinnati's 500-kilowatt WLW (see p. 66) or the Moscow station of equal power, were strong enough to induce glow discharges in the upper air which would be of immense value for studying changing movements and density of ions in the ionosphere...
...tube set, he found he could buy parts and make one himself for $35. Result was Crosley Radio Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, now approximately fourth largest U.S. radio producer. From the vocation of making radios to the avocation of radio broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric bulbs with wires stuck in nearby ground...