Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings went out onto the courts for the first time Yesterday, so Coach Wynn can not be too sure of his lineup. Pete Baker has been plagued by a left arm broken this fall, and may figure in the lineup later. Others who show promise are Ben Florin, Pete Morris, Ted Sexton, and John Zentay...
...tube-which eventually may be used in other color systems-comes in two types. The first has a single electron "gun" in the neck of the tube, which shoots a single beam of electrons-producing three colors: red, blue and green-onto the face of the tube. The millions of electrons are spun in front of a mask containing 117,000 minute holes, or one for every three dots on the viewing screen itself. The holes in the mask expose the incoming electrons to each of the color dots in turn, thus making a picture which approximates the color...
Last week, tricked out in a yellow and pink garden dress, picture hat and orange and magenta feather boa, Puerto Rico pursued a hapless, grinning amateur into the wings. Then he laid his pistol down. Out onto the stage stepped one of the most famed alumnae of the Apollo amateur hour: bosomy, nimble-voiced Ella Fitzgerald...
...Montmartre's famous dance hall, Le Moulin de la Galette, he peopled with gay, attractive couples instead of the garishly lit libertines and doxies of Toulouse-Lautrec. The landscapes and floral pieces which Renoir did for "mental relaxation" glowed with the pure bright colors which he confidently splashed onto his canvases without even bothering to mix on his palette...
...whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...