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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation, the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass is simplicity itself. You tune in on a commercial broadcast, listen to Paul Whiteman or Father Coughlin. Then you switch off the earphones, turn on the bearing-indicator. A pointer on the instrument-board dial guides you so accurately to the broadcasting station that if a balloon were sent up from it on a string you would cut the string in half, flying blind. By taking cross-bearings on two broadcasting stations you can determine your position to a hair's breadth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transpacific | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Despite a revamped lineup, with Dick Fletcher moved up to forward, and Bill Gray returning to the lineup, the Crimson cagers were swamped by the men of Morningside Heights to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FIVE DEFEATED BY LION'S SQUAD, 52-29 | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

...trying to commit suicide by plunging into a pond. The actress keeps house for them and is dejected only when the furniture dealer wears a shirt she has not had time to iron. By the time the picture ends, the violinist has a job, the street cleaner knows his tune, the banker is about to reward the other two according to their deserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...hard-fighting and handicapped Varsity cagers went down to defeat before the Blue five last night to the tune of 36 to 24, but did not succumb without making the Elis work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM LOSES TO YALE QUINTET , 36-24 | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

...close, all indications point to a Harvard victory in this 35th series. Yale still has the game with Brown this evening, but the Bulldog should come through that scrimmage with no gain and perhaps an injury. Harvard easily drove the Bear back into its den to the tune of 7-2 although Coach Joe Stubbs had several of the Varsity men stay at home rather than tire them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/27/1935 | See Source »

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