Word: staticity
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...Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...demands special sending equipment, a special receiver. The benefits to the listener are an absence of static, a unique fidelity of tone. Standard broadcasting keeps the frequency of its radio waves constant, varies the power; FM varies the frequency, keeps the power constant. Static is a series of power variations-and FM receivers "level off" the variations. Each FM station enjoys a channel 20 times as wide as standard broadcasting's ten megacycles, which is one of the reasons for the fidelity of tone. High notes are rapid vibrations, and the most rapid demand wider channels than standard broadcasting...
...should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...electrified snowflakes mentioned in your issue of Jan. 22 and supposedly discovered by Dr. Caldwell would come as no surprise to any airline pilot. The phenomenon of radio static caused by snow or other precipitation is observed thousands of times every year by pilots flying under bad weather conditions...
Navigational radio . . . is usually equipped with a shielded loop-type antenna to cope with just such static...