Word: watt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...
...progress in radar was paralleled by a team of British physicists under Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. (The British first called it "radiolocation," later accepted the U.S. word "radar."*) There were also the Germans, who were known to be experimenting with radar as early as 1935; the Japs, whose physicist Hide-tsugu Yagi was working on basic shortwave studies long before the war (the U.S. Navy called its early radar antennae "yagis"); the French, who in 1936 installed on the Normandie a crude radar for detecting icebergs...
...jumper to leap from a bomber during the first phase of the entry into Berlin, before any other newscasters are allowed to land by plane. He will broadcast from a German station if one is still in operation; if not, probably from a 60,000-watt mobile transmitter which the Army packs on 17 trucks. All U.S. networks will carry his historic broadcast...
...reeled off the names of the interlocking and overlapping federal bureaus which now deal with, and delay, every question of labor policy. That he had flicked a raw spot was made clear last week in speeches in the New York Times Hall by Labor Leaders Phil Murray, Robert J. Watt and David B. Robertson, who spoke with anger at having to carry every little problem to a bickering Government...
...Mosquito Network consists of just five* of AFRS's 100 stations and 200 public-address systems now established, from Greenland to China. But its tiny 50-watt voices are very welcome in a lonely area where short-and medium-wave reception is uncertain...