Word: staticity
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Great are the difficulties facing radio television. Images transmitted over the air are sometimes hard to recognize. Static interferes with them; the usual short wave receivers are not satisfactory, yet no better form of receiver has yet been perfected. Great, however, is public interest. Some 15,000 television receiving sets are in existence. Fortnight ago in Manhattan station WGBS-W2XCR (Jenkins equipment) started broadcasting films, entertainments. Typical television...
...inauguration of WGBS-W2XCR, Pugilist Primo Camera showed his primeval face. Sir Guy Standing went through part of Mrs. Moonlight, Performers Peggy Joyce, Gertrude Lawrence. Frances Williams did skits which were broadcast and recognized, though distorted by static...
...Peace has been the constant object of Il Duce's policy: a political, social and economic peace among citizens, classes and groups, a religious peace and a peace among nations and states; a loyal and not a deceitful peace; an operating and not a static peace because it is aimed at preserving men and nations; a peace founded on truth. . . . [The agreement] represents a victory for no particular nation, but a victory for all the nations, a victory for equity and good sense, which is no less important in the relations between na- tions as in the relations between individuals...
...with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing in shape. The nebulae seem to be shooting away from one another like pieces of a bursting shell. Therefore, last week, when Dr. Einstein indicated that he had changed his mind about a few points of cosmology, California physicists...
...questionnairing Yale Daily News, Dr. Einstein wrote confirmation: "New observations . . . make the presumption near that the general structure of the Universe is not static...