Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since she first launched When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain as her beam song in 1931, TV-Radioriole Kate Smith has turned the lunar trick some 10,000 times. This week Kate will at last put her Moon in limbo. On her new MBS radio show she will open by warbling Swonderful, fade away with By Myself. Said she of Moon: "I've simply grown tired of hearing the song...
...William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...
That night 1,200 faithful (at $10 a head) turned up to watch their man blast away at the Eisenhower Administration for lack of initiative in the space war, and to beam out loud and clear that the Democrats stood "ready and willing" to assume the burdens of world leadership. Kennedy even touched on a Midwest sore point-the kind that led Kansas Democrats to favor-Estes Kefauver over Kennedy for Vice President in the 1956 convention: the farm issue: Said Kennedy, who must live down his mildly anti-farm belt record: "I think we are going to have...
...Paso, somebody reported a "wondrous white craft with forward and aft searchlights, a pair of propellers and a cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...