Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east, the Federal Civil Defense Administration had built a simulated suburb: two typical frame houses, looking prim and white among the yucca trees. Nearby a typical signpost read Elm & Main. Typical U.S. cars were spotted in the imaginary parking places of the imaginary town...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
...scene on different reels (one as seen by the right eye and the other by the left), and project them from separate machines so that they merge into one picture. In the Vectograph system, now in the final stages of development, one camera takes two images on a single frame of film, and projects them by a single machine. With Vectograph, Land expects that any theater can show 3-D movies with no more equipment-or operating expense-than present pictures...
...twenty-minute film sketch shuttles you through a series of students' rooms, Adams' panelled dinning hall, the Master's residence and the Radcliffe Quad. But the film is not merely a dry House travelogue; exhuberant students appear in almost every frame. Also Ivy has attempted to smooth its scene shifts with humorous plot sequences, but the transitions are still reminiscent of a newsreel...
...School was never behind. Though its first quarter lead of 13 points dwindled to ten at the end of the first half, and seven by the end of the third quarter, it connected for 23 markers in the last frame to win by 14 points...