Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Because his name is one to conjure with; Because his methodical irresistible onslaught has made him dictator of Spain; Because his acts may strike the spark for the next world-wide conflagration; Because his meteoric ride has occurred entirely within the space of this year, 1936; I nominate for the Man of the Year, General Francisco Franco...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
...Japanese Government, with its practised flair for choosing the safe moment to be offensive, took advantage last week of world-wide preoccupation with Britain's Battle Royal to ram yet another thorn into China's flesh...
...president, proudly explained in Manhattan last week that for radiotelephony between fixed points, Bell's coaxial cable provides "a piece of the ether which has been segregated from all the other ether in the world." Because it can carry a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide and can "pipe" tele vision underground for hundreds of miles...
...between the shore and a ship at sea, for example-the voice is converted into waves of radiation which travel through the air. But weaves of radiation at radio frequencies can also be guided along a cable, if the stations are fixed arid if the cable can carry a wide enough frequency band. Such an arrange ment enables the cable-carried waves to be fortified by amplifiers at intervals along the route, minimizes tonal losses due to static and fading. Such a cable is the famed coaxial cable developed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s research subsidiary, Bell Telephone...