Word: dished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in cloudy New England, Harvard University dedicated a new radio telescope at the Agassiz Station of the Harvard Observatory, 25 miles west of Cambridge. The telescope's 60-ft. "dish" antenna is steerable (it points anywhere) and is specially designed to pick up 21-cm. radio waves from the great clouds of hydrogen that clutter the universe...
...their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision than the 24-ft. "dish" that has been doing Harvard's radio astronomy. If the moon were a source of 21-cm. waves, the 24-ft. telescope could not distinguish it from two other moons ranged in a line beside it. All three would share the same blur...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives radio waves in much the same manner as the mirror of an optical telescope receives light waves...
...practicality of mechanizing schools, he says that the machines--even a large number of them--would not strain our economy. "A country which annually produces millions of refrigerators, dish-washers, automatic washing-machines, automatic clothes-dryers, and automatic garbage disposers can certainly afford the equipment necessary to educate its citizens to high standards of competence in the most effective...
...Constance is done for. Soon she and Frankie are meeting in alleys, in old mills and, come spring, splashing idyllically in secret pools. Melford, no different from other husbands in a like fix, is naturally the last to know. What is more, he does not care. Then a tasty dish at a nearby tavern supplies for Melford what Melford apparently wanted all along, but Constance never knew how to offer...