Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Venice, Fla., a farmer complained of static in his radio. A repairman found two rattlesnakes inside...
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...last-minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...
...principle distinctions between the two imperialisms is that the British is already established, whereas success of the German policies of expansion would involve "enormous" cost to the world, Karpovich said. "The very fact that British imperialism is static is a point in its favor...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...