Word: dished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antenna will replace a ten-year-old, 60-foot dish now in use at the Observatory's radio telescope center at Agassiz Station in Harvard, Mass. The addition will double both the area the sensitivity of the Observatory's radio system...
With a surface machined to within a tenth of an inch, the new dish will also greatly broaden the range of radio wavelengths which the telescope can detect...
...giant 84-foot radio dish going into operation this summer at the Harvard College Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will triple the station's power to gather radio waves from distant parts of the universe...
What did it prove? Nothing, aside from the fact that Clay can take it as well as dish it out. Some critics sneered that he was a powder-puff puncher; others insisted that Cassius deliberately had "carried" Chuvalo, could have knocked him out any time he wanted. Clay replied by exhibiting a pair of swollen hands that looked almost as bad as Chuvalo's face: "George's head," he moaned, "is the hardest thing I've ever punched...
...someone had tapped him on the back, he probably wouldn't have looked up. He is like that--always immersed in what he is doing, and always dividing and redividing his time so that he can do things. He is the kind of man would like to taste every dish on every menu in the world; the kind of man who is so indefatigably curious that he would almost stop people on the MBTA to ask them what they had done that morning and what they were planning for the afternoon. Walking up to a card catalogue must be torture...