Word: mccormick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Canadian radar expert Lieut. Commander Harold D. McCormick explained the radar failure as a case of "substandard propagation." This means, he said, that when the air becomes warmer and dryer as altitude increases (an unusual condition), "it is possible for the waves from the radar transmitter to skip over the target...
...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...
...Navy radar men thought the McCormick explanation "possible but extremely unlikely." One expert went so far as to insist: "a close-in target is always seen, unless the radar is out of order...
When Louis Evans graduated from Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary in 1922, his minister-father had a nice pastorate all picked out for him. But earnest young Evans had other ideas. He decided instead to go to a tiny church of 29 members in the prairie town of Westhope, N.D. (pop. then...
...months Hearst's Chicago Herald-American had dawdled along in a well-worn rut. Next to Bertie McCormick's Tribune, it had the biggest circulation in town and was holding it. But the Herald's news coverage had gone dull after the whoopdedoo of the Heirens murder case. Sex crimes got big headlines now & again, but the news lacked the red-and-saffron splashes of rich detail that had won the Herald its readers...