Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theoretically, these radio amateurs can be of vital importance in times of emergency. Although the chances are small that they might have to supplement regular communications channels--almost an annual chore for midwestern hams in flood areas--they can be of assistance in relaying messages from other disaster areas to relatives and rescue workers...
...industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful tube will report what it sees to distant human watchers...
...last time "Sam" was heard from was two years ago when he threatened to flood the foundations of Lamont Library while they were being laid. He was stayed off by suction pumps that ran 24 hours...
...Harvard's difficulties with water have not come from "Creeping Sam." Most of the area on which the Houses were built is filled-in swamp-land that used to flood at high tide. Even after the new living quarters were finished, exceptionally high tides would inundate the area. The situation was not improved until the course of the Charles River was altered and a dam built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...nearly two years listeners and advertisers stayed away in droves. Then, almost overnight, the flood ran the other way. Chesterfield sponsored his daytime show and it began to sprout additional sponsored quarter-hours. Thomas J. Lipton Inc., searching for a new nighttime program, decided to take a chance on Talent Scouts. Godfrey...