Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amend the Constitution giving the Federal Government power to regulate labor, agriculture and industry-or whatever may be necessary to achieve the New Deal's aims, Senator Ashurst, before his switch to the President's plan, belonged to this school of thought. Its devotees last week were not much heard from, for it is generally admitted that any amendment which would grant such power would completely destroy state rights, would virtually give Congress power to do anything...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...
...General Electric Co. has developed a similar mercury switch...
...last year, had a fine chance to catch up the next night. The chance was improved when Lee, starting his free figures with double Salchow jumps (two revolutions in the air) twisted his left knee so badly that, through the rest of his five-minute routine, he had to switch from his left foot, on which he usually takes off, to his right. He made the change so expertly that no one guessed he was hurt till he limped off the rink when the music stopped. When Reiter finished, his free figures were a few points better than...