Word: intersectionality
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...comparing the time of readings, three stations can make sure they all heard the same bomb. Each also records the compass direction from which the sound came. In a matter of 40 minutes the readings can be compared, plotted on a chart. The spot where the three bearing lines intersect is the spot where the bomb was dropped. The Navy says it can plot the bomb explosion accurately within one mile at distances up to 2,000 miles from the shore stations...
...beginning of military unity. Over New Delhi, long a cauldron of inter-and intra-Allied intrigue for military power and prestige, floated the flag of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten. The banner, a phoenix, centered on the Union Jack where the crosses of Saints George, Andrew and Patrick intersect, signified official constitution of the Allied Command in Southeast Asia. It implied more: that hereafter, in the "Battle of Delhi," the Jap was to be the only enemy...
...with a sextant. He marks on his globe the exact substellar spots of these two stars (i.e., the spots where these stars are directly overhead-obtained from star tables). Then he uses these two spots as centers of circles, drawn with the angle measured by sextant. The two circles intersect at two widely distant points; one is the location of the plane. At high speeds and at mind-fogging altitudes the quickness of the method may be literally lifesaving...
...inter-American relations. A U. S. nightclub entertainer (Don Ameche) is romancing a Brazilian cutie (Carmen Miranda) who performs in the same show. Patrons of the nightclub are Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche) a rich Brazilian broker and his pretty, plumpish wife (Alice Faye). When their quadrangular paths intersect, the foursome gets its identities tangled, temporarily crosses its affections. The complications, jealousies and comedy which accompany this Technicolored treatise on Pan-American flirtation are highly significant diplomatically. That Night in Rio is the first rose tossed by Hollywood in its current attempt to woo South America via the movies...
...tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...