Word: ect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corner reflectors are peculiar shapes made of two or three mutually intersecting surfaces of electrically conducting material. They re: ect radio or radar waves with extraordinary efficiency; small ones stand out on a radarscope as if they were heavy bombers. The NACA plan is to put one of these large but almost immaterial objects on an orbit so high that residual air will not slow it appreciably. At twilight it will look as bright as the North Star, and radars pointed at it will show it plainly. They can follow it on its course and measure its distance and direction...
...next ambitious and unabashed proj ect: an opera about San Francisco, circa 1875. Says he: "I set words well, and I think I have a good enough dramatic sense to pull this off. If I don't, I'll find it out, and that's that...
...wearing was supposed to tell the nose. Her manager, a light blond, told us that in her less jungle-like moments La Voodoo was known as Stella Danfray. They were just in from Hollywood where DcMille had given her a screen test. And how did La Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic. But zee country ees so beautiful." What interested her most in the States? She looked around for her manager who had gone off in the corner with the buyers. American slang was the answer; she spoke English well, but these quaint expressions--they confused...