Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowing-a dry, cold, tiny-flaked snow. In his country house near Greenwich, Conn., which is cluttered with a variety of electronic gadgets, Dr. Orestes H. Caldwell, editor of Electronic Industries, was fiddling with his short-wave radio. It seemed to be afflicted with a peculiar kind of staccato static. He turned on his television set, found it similarly affected, the interference appearing as a series of rapid black & white flashes on the screen...
...thoroughly catalogued, have had little fundamental study; nobody knows, for example, exactly where & how they are formed. Dr. Caldwell's big news was that apparently, under certain conditions, snowflakes carry strong electrical charges. He discovered that the flakes were charged by covering his antenna; when he did, the static promptly stopped...
Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...
Professor Richards states that British and American propaganda broadcasts to the continent used Basic, read very slowly, to combat the barrage of static which is put up by the Germans. "The BBC and the Voice of America use Basic quite a lot for anti-jamming," he said...
...through having to exclude the long-ago, the whole gradual development of Apley from a human bus into a human tram, that the play falls short of the book-in irony, humanity, completeness. But greatly enlivening the plotless story and largely static portraiture are a continuing comedy of Back Bay manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken...