Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skins" had claimed the floor earlier by knocking off football coach Al Bruno's noontime gang. Bruno, the grid team's offensive coordinator, played on the University of Kentucky's NCAA championship team of 1948-49. He and several other Harvard coaches dominate center-court daily from noon until 1 p.m. Using the running hook and the one-hand shot to counter modern techniques, Coach Bruno constantly astounds his younger opponents...
Just as those who try to the cost-benefit grid brought punks than in "beat...
...slang for terrorist tracks. Says Major James Cromar, 43, a reserve commander stationed near the Mozambique border: "We have created a top-rate bush fighter. You can drop an average reserve troopie anywhere in the country at night with a compass, and he can give you a six-figure grid reading which can put you within 100 yards of his position...
...stores information until it is needed by other parts of the machine. For nearly two decades the most popular memory in modern computers has been the magnetic core variety. It consists of thousands of tiny iron rings, each one encircling an intersection of two wires in a rectangular grid made up of thousands of wires. Depending on the direction of current in the two wires that pass through its hole, each doughnut is magnetized in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This represents either a 1 or a 0-a "bit" (for binary digit) of information. Because each core...
There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They...