Word: grid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...
CARNIVAL BY THE SEA (327 pp. Si grid de Lima-Scribner...
...darkness, Madrileños cursed the latest and worst of a series of major cuts in the city's electricity supply. It was the same throughout most of Spain. A season of parching droughts had left the reservoirs empty. The hydroelectric power plants are old. and the grid system that distributes their current does not suffice for Spain's growing need for industrial power...
Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...
Worthy though it is, this goal has its dangers, and Tatum, inadvertently, we suspect, touched on them directly. There is always the possibility of grid-minded alumni pressuring the Admissions Office into overloading the entering class with athletes. So far, however, the University has pursued its quest for variety effectively, without lowering its academic standards. And there is no reason to believe that the College will ever field a team of physical education majors...