Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periodically shut of the largest of Explorer VI's three radio transmitters. A memory device called Telebit takes over, stores up what the satellite learns during its silence. When the transmitter is turned on again, Telebit spills out the stored information in the digital transmission system, a coding method so concise that data collected during a 4½-hour period can be sent in a few seconds...
Page one headlines trumpeted last week what may be a major breakthrough in the problem of detecting missile launchings and nuclear explosions anywhere in the world. The news: a radio-monitoring method-called Project Tepee-reported to be so sensitive that it can track Russian bomb tests and rocketry from stations within...
...there were even a slight difference in the returning echo patterns-and if receivers could be made sensitive enough to detect the difference -monitoring oscilloscopes could display telltale evidence of what the waves had encountered on their travels. Since these radio waves bounce around the earth, the new method would overcome the limitation of radar, whose line-of-sight waves travel in straight lines, thus cannot see beneath the horizon...
...walking down the corridor. It stimulates your thinking along oddball lines and keeps you from getting in a rut." The best example of that occurred two years ago, when he read a couple of published papers-one on the backscatter phenomenon, the other on ionized gases-and saw a method of connecting the two subjects that no one had seen before. The result was Project Tepee. "It's so simple," protests Thaler mildly. "I don't know-why someone didn't think of this before...
...Texas restaurants, is president of the nationwide League of United Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking children throughout the nation...