Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal reason why radio waves will follow the heating system," Oliphant explained, "is that their frequencies are so high. Currents of lower frequency would immediately jump into the ground, despite the abestos insulation." The same experiment made at Brown last year probably failed because of insufficient pipe insulation...
That denial exasperated the Swedes, and all the more so when an investigating commission examined some duds and found them of Russian make. Swedish "activists" immediately redoubled their demands that the country jump into the war on Finland's side regardless of consequences. All over Scandinavia young men rushed in greater numbers than ever to Finnish volunteer recruiting stations. It was a question of touch-&-go whether popular demand would not force the Swedish Government into openly helping Finland...
...prime subject for discussion in any gathering. No social historian has traced the spread of the word racket through U. S. common talk, but if such a study is ever made it might well begin with racketeering under prohibition, lead to the spreading belief that law is a racket, jump to the thought that every successful man has his own racket, move on to the natural conclusion that business is a racket, politics a racket, government a racket, ideals a racket, organizations a racket, religion a racket, and so, with inexorable logic, reach the final bleak conviction that life itself...
Arthur S. Harris, Jr. '43, head of the Dating Bureau, nearly came to blows over the Folies queen with Peter B. Saltonstall '43 and Paul C. Sheeline '43, who had gotten the jump on their rival by boarding the train at the Back Bay Station and making Andree's acquaintance. Sex reared its ugly head when the photographer posed Andree and Harris in a semi-kiss...
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