Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend or foe) device which can be coupled directly with gun-aiming equipment was announced by the National Security Resources Board. In World War II, when an I.F.F. reported...
McCrary figured that the TV audience was ready for something different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan). "TV eats up material so fast," he reasoned, "that the only dependable source is the day-to-day flow of news." Mixing the techniques of newsreel, theater and movies, McCrary developed an ambitious show called Preview, a "magazine of the air," which Philip Morris sponsored. Last month, Preview went...
...minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby-vaudeville...
With the gun, he launched himself into the water like a spent torpedo. He rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted...
...making a social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched balls...