Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four castered wheels, the Pogo resembles an outsize badminton bird. Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the 5,500-h.p. Allison turboprop engine, and the two counterrotating propellers slowly lifted the plane up to 175 ft. Then, still hanging on its propellers, Pogo nosed over; as it began to pick up speed, it also began to pick up lift from its stubby wings, soon was sailing along in conventional level flight. After two 280-m.p.h. sweeps over the field, Pilot Coleman raised Pogo's nose, hovered like a helicopter over his take-off spot, and came gently tail-down...
Audio Account. Despite the fact that his recordings sounded far more realistic than most commercial releases, Engineer Cook was still dissatisfied. No matter how many microphones he used to pick up sounds-or speakers to reproduce it-everything was reduced to a single groove on the record. It all sounded to him "like listening through a porthole." His solution: adapting binaural or stereophonic sound (picked up by two microphones, fed through two channels and reproduced separately by two speakers) to records. Big companies, including Victor, see the straws in the wind, are quietly making binaural tapes of all their major...
...teaching fellow has run through his last appointment and his graduate work is completed, he has an eight to one chance of staying here. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences carries only 50 men in the next position in the faculty hierarchy, the instructor post. The same authorities pick the men, but the Corporation must approve the choice since this is a full-time job. It amounts to three consecutive one-year appointments, but the instructor again may withdraw if he wishes...
Nick Platt stroked a pick-up crew to victory over four other shells in the varsity rowers' annual "Hollow Log Regatta" on the Charles yesterday...
...drawbridge down: the story is not as fleet as Angevin England's fast-moving Leopard banners. But, as usual, Duggan has a thorough grasp of the political and social hanky-panky of his period. The publisher offers unsatisfied buyers of the book any substitute title they may pick off the current bestseller list, but current bestsellers being what they are, readers might as well stick with Duggan...