Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Routine acceptance by F.C.C. is expected by the Council, a non-profit educational group of six local colleges, including Harvard. The commercial 20,000-watt station will be set up on the site of the University's Blue Hills meteological observatory under plans drawn up by University and M.I.T. engineers...
WHRB decided to build the 90-watt transmitter because its 30-watt one is "just about gone." Originally designed to serve only the seven Houses, the old machine became overheated too quickly after the Yard, Graduate, and Business schools were added to the station's broadcasting range. Overheating ruined the tubes...
John Hersey scored one of the year's popular successes with The Wall, a fictional-documentary study of the extermination of Warsaw's Jews under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...
...Larry Borwnell (H) defeated Chase, 15-11, 12-15, 15-7, 10-15, 15-13. Andy Miler (H) defeated Swayer, 15-10, 15-10, 8-15, 15-11. Ted Rose (H) defeated Baker, 15-10, 15-8, 15-6. Hadden Tomes (H) defeated Watt...
...family's apartment in The Bronx, 23-year-old Stanley Gordon found himself momentarily at loose ends. But Stanley, a radio bug, and an interested participant in the Atomic Age, soon found something to do. He got out his tools and hooked up a microphone, a four-watt amplifier and an eight-inch loudspeaker. Then, seized with the kind of dreamy thirst for power which causes humans to throw matches into gas tanks or shoot fat women with BB guns, he leaned over and began to speak...