Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
...Frank Culling Albert is easily the most spectacular T-quarterback going, and possibly the brainiest (chief rival: Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears). Frankie is light (170 lbs.) and fast, and constantly working at what he considers his great talent: ball handling. Even in practice, he constantly asks his teammates whether they could see the ball on that last play. After one game, he asked the radio announcer how often he fooled...
...hybrid variety of facsimile transmission. It combines features of both television and photography. The material to be sent (text, writing, pictures, diagrams) must first be photographed on a strip of movie film. Using a kind of modified television technique, the film is "scanned" by a "flying spot" of light. At the receiving station another flying spot reproduces the material on another strip of film. When Ultrafax is really rolling, said Sarnoff, it can transmit 1,000,000 words a minute...
...Ultrafax is no table-top trinket. In the cut of the receiving apparatus, a "flying spot" of light is in the cylinder at the upper right. The film runs through the square camera box below it. The rest of the big cabinet is full of electron tubes and "monitoring" equipment. The pretty girl, the clock and the book are decorations...
Then came another wonder. A small, light press printed text and pictures at 1,200 feet of paper a minute without any fluid ink or rollers. Said one publisher: "This looks like the beginning of a revolution...