Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goggles are the key to the Solido system. Taking the place of the funny cardboard-frame glasses used to watch old-style 3-D movies, the eyewear creates a stereoscopic effect by using lenses filled with liquid-crystal diodes, the same material that forms the numerals on the face of a digital wristwatch. When jolted by an electrical current, an LCD lens can instantly switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times...
Hofstra sealed the win in the second frame when it scraped up two more runs off of hard-luck loser Fromholz. Despite a solid outing--giving up only one earned run in seven innings--the sophomore hurler was victimized by a less than over-powering performance at the plate by her Crimson teammates...
...That frame of thinking, with our mind in the past, would actually be disasterous," Nye says...
...Crimson struck again in the bottom of the third inning, sending 11 batters to the plate. Harvard picked up four runs in the frame to put the game out of reach...
Harvard dropped the first game, 12-9, after blowing a 7-0 lead after three innings and a 9-7 advantage in the ninth frame. The Crimson led, 2-1, in the nightcap, but had to fight back from a two-run deficit to tie the score at 4-4 before the game was called on account of darkness...