Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When freshmen answer the call of "milk and doughnuts" after January first, the man waiting with a basket of food and drink may look the same as he does now, but there will have been a change. The new milk and doughnut men will be controlled by a strong central agency...
...warrant disturbing students in their own rooms. But, the student's trade must not be lured away from the Square merchants, lest the local men claim unfair competition. There is a difference, however, between supervision and control. And a wholesale policy of bringing all student operations like the doughnut men or laundry canvassers under the aegis of a sub-deanery is unnecessary and unfair...
...showers, Korean houseboys to do the laundry, and movies almost every night. The man at division figured the corps headquarters soldier "had it knocked" with his PX, his girls, and "tak-san" (much) beer. At corps, they envied Army's warm buildings, big PX, recreation programs, coffee and doughnut canteens, and "Stateside" Red Cross girls. The G.I.s at Army headquarters would rather have been in Japan, or else close to the front collecting four rotation points a month. But everybody wanted to go home...
Hollywood can proceed to the ultimate in cinematic realism by using a hemispherical screen and central projector (as in a planetarium), by using an annular lens (as sometimes used on submarine periscopes), which presents a doughnut-shaped picture to the eye (or camera) covering 360° around the horizon, and practically to the zenith. This picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating...
Revolving Doughnut. The completed satellite station will be a doughnut-shaped object 250 feet in diameter, made of plastic-impregnated nylon inflated with air. It will revolve slowly, its motion providing a centrifugal substitute for gravity. "Down" will be outward, so the crew will walk with their feet toward the outer wall of the ring...