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Word: erector (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon's new proposal calls for 23 underground shelters to be connected by ramps to each track. Only one MX missile would be based on each oval. The missile would be moved from shelter to shelter by a TEL, for transporter-erector-launcher. Each one would be 180 ft. long, 13 ft. wide and 13.5 ft. high, roll on 24 huge tires and have a 3,250 h.p. engine. The total weight of a TEL and its missile would be 335 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Move It or Lose It | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...meals, free room, good time" deal for a weekend or two and, after the treatment, they usually sign on for the duration. All Tiger coach Norm Peck has to do is polish the trophy case. Presto chango, and Princeton is three-time national champ, leaving Fish and Barnaby's erector set coaching style looking at second place (or third this year...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Ivy League Squash: Why Are the Tigers Winning? | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...housing units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, and 348 sewage-treatment plants, which have effectively reduced pollution in the upper Hudson. His most controversial construction was the $1 billion-plus Albany Mall, an immense Brasilia-like complex to house the state government. It was denounced as "Rocky's Erector Set," but it is now a favorite of government workers and tourists alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Champ Who Never Made It | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...quickly returned to their religious proselytizing, preparing tracts for publication and dissemination through a network of journals and "scientific" seminars. As one of the photographs smuggled out of the "lab" reveals, the Gibbsians are now trying to draw the godhead's body into existence out of photons and an erector...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Gibbs Day: A Festival of Pseudoscience | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

...large-scale integration (LSI). Unlike their single-circuit predecessors, which were designed to do only one specific job, LSIs integrated a number of circuits with separate functions on individual chips. These in turn were soldered together on circuit boards. Out of such modules, entire computers could be assembled like Erector sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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