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Word: circuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage amplification together with a self-recording galvanometer. A local oscillator with controlled output makes possible the exact calibration of the entire receiving circuit prior to each night's observations," Professor Stetson continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMER EXPLAINS RADIO EVIL | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...amusement purveyor, Mr. Brown will have as assets on hand the Keith-Albee theatre circuit, the F. B. O. Produc tion Co.'s pictures, and the Radio Corpo ration's talking movie, the Photophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Know-Nothing Brown | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...half a millennium at least Peru has run the whole golden gamut of romance, always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Last week, the landladies, irate, threatened a circuit court injunction against the university, charging it with breach of public faith, profligate waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Landladies' Ire | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...those who enjoy the precocious if somewhat naive prattle of wide awake found ladies with a "career" on the stage awaiting them "Angel Child" by Grace Perkins is just the thing it is so to speak the diary of a girl of thirteen who travels the circuit with her mother and plays juvenile parts mean while keeping an open eye upon the rest of the company life in general and a place in the moving pictures in particular...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

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