Word: picking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ordinarily the hucksters gobble down the prime cuts of television time, while the experimenters, the educators and the innovators have to pick at the spare and bony hours when nobody is looking, or everybody is dozing from too much Sunday dinner. Last week the salesmen risked a little experimenting themselves and alloted one of TV's choicest hours to a program devoted to science and scientists. It was a pleasant and nourishing dish. With CBS's Our Mr. Sun, the first of a seven-part, hourlong Bell Telephone series, TV proved that though there is nothing new under...
Preliminary plans for the Green Bank telescope were drawn up nearly three years ago. The new $2,000,000 telescope will have a 140-ft. paraboloid antenna (second in size only to the 250-ft. antenna being constructed in England) which should allow it to pick up spatial wave lengths never before recorded. Specifically, the astronomers hope that they will be able to "see through" the great drifting clouds of hydrogen, which have previously occupied their attention, to more interesting clouds of the deuterium atom (heavy hydrogen...
...retail sales room, for anyone in the market for a paper collar. Customers are infrequent, but just a few days ago a Royal Navy captain, whose cruiser was docked in Boston, ran out of detachables (still popular in Her Majesty's Service) and dispatched a jeepload of sailors to pick up a carton...
...densely traveled routes, the radars will also pick up small aircraft flying at altitudes lower than 15,000 feet. Designed and built by the Raytheon Manufacturing Co., the new installations will each use a mammoth 40-ft. antenna and will be able to feed up to 15 monitor screens simultaneously. Among their other refinements: an appreciable decrease in the "clutter" which plagues much radar during rainy weather; a filtering system which cuts out reflections from fixed objects, thus registering only moving objects; electronically generated maps, which can be superimposed on the radarscope for immediate identification of the territory over which...
...Okay, well, I'll pick...