Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what to do about it." This news was attributed to "anonymous students," but in fact its source was a letter Stephen Potter had written to the CRIMSON the week before. In the letter he explained that students living in Leverett Towers never bothered to turn off the three 150-watt spotlights with which the rooms were equipped because they didn't have to pay the electric bill. On the basis of a three-week personal survey of Leverett lighting habits, Potter wrote, he had calculated that wasted electricity cost the University $10,000 a year, "enough for full tuition scholarships...
When ten irate students showed up at Danang's spanking-new 1,000-watt transmitter, an official readily turned over the microphones. "Why not?" he asked quietly. "It's a community station...
Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
Your story on radio's vitality [Feb. 18] fails to mention college radio. While most college operations are limited to the campus, many are expanding. My own station, the country's oldest college station, has turned dream into reality: we have expanded to a 20,000-watt stereo FM station to serve Southern New England with public affairs and music programs. College radio is on the move-I believe that many of tomorrow's radio executives are getting their start at college stations rather than in broadcasting schools...
...became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...