Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams that worked out yesterday afternoon lined up as follows: Team A--Geer, l.e., Simmons, l.t., Schumann, l.g., Comfort, c., Husband, r.g., Adlis, r.t., Knapp, r.e., Hedblom, Parquette, q.b., Fitz, r.h.b., Watt, r.h.b., Jackson, Hedblom...
...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was?250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...
...addition to its line of an automatic letter filing case, developed to meet the needs of public utility holding companies. This file, which will be known by the trade name 'Investigation Proof,' automatically picks out and destroys all letters from or to State Senators." Burlesquing the Watt Street Journal's "High Spots in the News" department, Bawl Street had items like: "Return to normalcy seen as banks are again robbed by outsiders"; "Investment trust loadings unchanged in May 19 week"; "Distillers' association adopts slogan: Never Too Late to Blend"; "Standard Oil of New Jersey may lose...
...headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item...
HARVARD PRINCETON Watt, fb. fb., Pasley Harding, rw. 3/4 rw. 3/4, Bales Meiklejohn, c. 3/4 c. 3/4, Halton Channing, c. 3/4 c. 3/4, Swann Howard, lw. 3/4 lw. 3/4, Lee Whitney, soh. soh., Duffus Mayorga, sh. sh., McPartland White, f. f., Stewart LaRoussilhe, f. f., Cragin Oppenheimer, f. f., Davis Knapp, f. f., Fisher Nazro, f. f., Hogg Aitken, f. f., McAllen Taylor, f. f., Quigley Schwyzer, f. f., Sinclair...