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...Whisker-Pulling Common...
Every right-fingered, mechanical-minded American knows that ordinary Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio was a vast improvement over the early crystal and cat's whisker variety. Not so many know that Frequency Modulation (FM) radio is almost as big an improvement over AM. Comparatively few, in fact, have actually enjoyed FM's nearly staticless, high-fidelity charms. A new gadget, marketed last week, may change all that-even though the radio revolution which would make FM broadcasting commercially sound may still be a long...
This year, the comet was due again, and astronomers calculated that this time the earth would pass only 131,000 miles from the place it had been eight days before. As astronomers measure distances, this is a cat's-whisker miss. The earth's gravitational pull would capture thousands, perhaps millions, of meteors: small bits of straggling comet stuff. When they plunged into the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour and turned into incandescent gas, the show would be the best since...
...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...
...every 15 men-moved with the army. Troops on foot walked with heads bent, scarcely lifting their feet until they entered a town or village. Then, with a visible effort, they straightened up and marched through in good order. Their uniforms were patched and faded, their faces dirty and whisker-stubbled, their eyes weary, but their arms were shining clean...