Word: wavelength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simplest kind of jamming, says Herrick, is to compete with the opponent on the same wave length. This is not very effective, for the human ear can hear a human voice through noise of greater intensity. A better technique is to broadcast on a wavelength slightly different from the opponent's. The two waves react on one another. The result of this collaboration is a squealing "beat," part of whose ear-whacking energy comes from each wave. Still better is the technique of varying the frequency of the jamming wave so that it straddles the opponent's. This...
England had experienced that hideous novelty. It was difficult not to chance on Joyce's wavelength when one was tuning in to the English stations, and there was an arresting quality about his voice which made it a sacrifice not to go on listening. ... It seemed as if one had better hearken and take warning, when he suggested that the destiny of the people he had left in England was death, and the destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible...
...Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...
First, Scott explained, he took a drop of the patient's blood and put it in a small black "analyzing" box. From this he determined the patient's "frequency." Then he tuned the "curing" box to the right wavelength, and its healing waves followed the patient wherever he went, like Mary's little lamb...
...just a way to keep your name before the public so you can make money on other engagements. . . . "That isn't to say that everything is bad about British broadcasting. We do give a good bit more attention to the cultural side. ... There is a whole wavelength, called the Third Program, for just that sort of thing (TIME, Nov. 4). Here, the only cultural programs I heard were broadcast after everyone had gone to bed. "And, of course, on the BBC there are none of those frightful commercials. . . . If the British public had any idea of changing to commercial...