Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This announcer is the heart of the system of the press. The spotters, with their glasses and their eyes alive only to pick out their own man in the play, observe all the more usual details and relay them to the announcer. When a penalty is administered, or a doubt arises as to a certain play, a telephone wire connecting with the home team's bench is brought into use, and a manager gives the information, officially, from the word of the coaches on the bench...
...addition, Station WNAC has made provision whereby its microphone will pick up the cheering of the cadets and Harvard rooters, and the music of the two bands. Joe Toya of the Boston Traveler will give through this station a word picture of the happenings before and after the game and during the half, whereas Ralph Gilroy, former Princeton star, will announce the details of the play. Thus through this station a running fire broadcast may be heard between...
...their ability and experience without regard to any political influences, and his choice has invariably received the approval of the legislature. We should expect his appointments to his Cabinet, the Supreme Court of the United States, and other important federal offices to show the same remarkable ability to pick, the best...
...Graf Zeppelin is not a fair weather ship," Dr. Eckener explained. "She demonstrated that . . . but I am not going to pick out the worst day to start for America. . . . Moreover the weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
...with radio because of static. His son Charles recently persuaded him to turn his wits to the radio. Result: a set to be put on the market next week. It contains two receivers, one for super-selectivity to get local stations exclusively, the other for sensitivity to pick up distant stations. Their machine also contains a phonograph...