Word: bending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remembering that radio waves diffract (bend) around obstructions, the IBM engineers calculated that they could twist their transmissions right over the top of mountains and other obstructions with out building repeater stations on top. They set up a weak, 15-watt transmitter 45 miles south of San Jose, Calif., on the other side of Loma Prieta, a 3,798-ft. peak in the Santa Cruz mountains. Then they pointed their transmitter's beam of 1,855-megacycle waves in the general direction of San Jose. When the beam was aimed too high, its waves shot off into space; when...
...Queen had a warmly loving relationship with the rough Scottish servant. The only recorded time in which the two were alone together, thinking that they were unobserved, makes a touching, human vignette. On a walk near Balmoral in 1875, a Mr. John Barry-Torr and his wife rounded a bend to see an empty pony cart and, a few yards away, Victoria and John Brown. Brown, pinning a plaid round the Queen's shoulders, apparently scratched her; she squealed and protested. "Brown offered no apology. He gave the Queen a kind of shake, clutched her more tightly and snapped...
Notre Dame South Bend...
...complainer Bragg tried a fiber-glass pole; unable to master it, he went back to aluminum. Says Oldtimer Cornelius War-merdam, 46, whose indoor record of 15 ft. 8½ in. (set in 1943 with a heavily taped bamboo pole) stood for 16 years: "Some vaulters get as much bend out of steel poles as they do with fiberglass. The only difference is timing...
Other officers include David Miller '64, of Winthrop House and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, School's Committee Chairman; John Tollack '64, of Quincy House and West Bend, Wis., Guides Committee Chairman; and Peter Lindenfelser '63, of Leverett House and Darien, Conn., Orientation Committee Chairman...