Word: grids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the line-covered viewing screen is a "grid" of fine parallel wires, one wire for each group of phosphor lines. At the narrow rear end of the tube is a single electron gun that shoots a slender beam of electrons through the wire grid at the viewing screen. As in all television tubes, the electron beam scans at a rapid rate, painting an ever-changing picture on the screen of phosphors...
...always more pleasant to boost than to knock, and it would be nice to be able to say that the performance against Springfield "marked a definite turn in Crimson grid fortunes." Nice, perhaps, but not true, for the Harvard team still shows many weaknesses, some of which may be erased, in time...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...
Douglas C. Walker, veteran Wake Forest head football coach, will join the Yale grid staff as a varsity assistant to Herman Hickman, a Yale official announced last night...
...Case a Babe. Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts and authorized by state labor laws. No truly modern office building is designed without its grid of coffee dispensaries. Small-town and suburban housewives have adopted "morning coffee" as an excuse to go neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...