Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspected disease sites, specially trained technicians have to examine the slides, pass the doubtful ones on to pathologists for further expert scrutiny. Such technicians are scarce. To get around this, the University of Tennessee in Memphis is experimenting with an electronic-eye "cyto-analyzer" that, it is hoped, will pick out the obvious negatives, leave truly suspicious slides for the pathologists to check...
Nicknamed ORDIR (omnirange digital radar), the new signal technique cannot be applied to existing radar systems. ORDIR's range is still secret, but it will "multiply" the present top range of radar, which can now pick out an airplane at 200-300 miles. In addition, ORDIR's high sensitivity is expected to track such rapid velocity objects as intercontinental missiles and earth satellites. Eventually, aircraft may be equipped with miniaturized ORDIR. But the system is still being developed and refined; no production contracts have been made...
...Civil War. "I always liked the organizing field," Zakman explained simply, although he admitted he "wasn't very successful at it." One day in 1950 Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade [i.e., cab drivers] that never had been organized in New York ... It would have been a good thing ... a nice living...
...days before they were due to cast primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer...
...lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue: Will Airman Taylor permit himself to be airborne long enough to lug a trunkful of British banknotes out of a frozen sterling area? It seems an easy way to pick...