Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preliminary to the Varsity game, which starts at 8:30 o'clock, Coach Al McCoy will send his Jayvee quintet onto the floor against the Jumbo B squad. They will try to approach the phenomenal score of 70 to 22 that they rolled up against the Portsmouth marines in their last contest. Varsity Lineups Gray l.f. Burgbacher Gantt r.f. Skarda Decsi c. Barnhart Mariaschin l.g. McCurdy Champion r.g. Cooney
Author Weiskopf packs into his novel a host of characters whose stumbling, often shady, approach to life neatly matches Austria's equally stumbling and shady progress into war. Twilight on the Danube glimmers romantically with bluebearded armament manufacturers, handsome intelligence officers, youthful idealists, and tea-party gargle about actresses and the disturbed condition of Balkan affairs. By the time the fatal shot has been fired at Sarajevo, Publisher Reither has found and lost his last and greatest love, and his entire family have fallen victims to their own dreams and to the Empire's infectious blend of sloppiness...
...high, barbed-wire fence was small protection last week against the drift of fine snow across Indianapolis' icy airport. The fence was no protection against questions, either. But it served notice that CAA's Ground Controlled Approach (G.C.A.) equipment, housed in a chunky Army truck and trailer, was still a military secret...
G.C.A. is made up of two microwave radar systems. The first is a rotating search beam: it is a modification of the two-dimensional radar used during the war to warn against the approach of enemy planes. Function of the search system is to find the approaching aircraft, and guide it through air traffic into the ten-mile range of the precision system...
...precision system is the heart of G.C.A. It consists of two radars which "scan" the approach area with fixed antennae. The elevation beam shows the plane's altitude and its rate of descent. The azimuth beam shows the direction of the plane's approach and its distance from the landing field. In both indicators, the plane's air track appears on calibrated error meters-with a hairline representing the ideal approach. On the basis of these meter readings, the pilot gets such verbal instructions as "Change course to 064 degree heading" or "Increase rate of descent...