Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
...moving parts" of television are two slim beams of electrons that sweep back & forth 15,750 times in each second. One "scans" the optical image of the scene the "pickup tube" is looking at. The other listens carefully, miles away, and paints an almost identical picture on the screen of the receiver...
Ordinary light knocks electrons from certain substances. The stronger the light, the more electrons it detaches. In the television "camera," a lens focuses a picture of the scene on a light-sensitive coating inside the pickup tube's front end. Electrons fly off. They are focused on a thin glass plate, each knocking off several more electrons, which are gathered up by a charged screen and drawn out of the tube...
...over a decade, the Yard athletic program has limped along like a nervous ghost, always threatening to sink dejectedly into a nearby grave, and rarely showing signs of purpose or composure. Freshmen have groaned through their regular grind in the gym, and perhaps played a game or two of pickup softball, but there has been no integrated inter-dormitory sports organization. Now, however, negotiations between Yard officials and the Athletic Association seem to promise well-arranged Freshman intramurals in the future...
...other, greener fields, Dunster's pickup hardball team lambasted Winthrop, 6 to 2, and, in softball, Leverett whipped Adams...