Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, with the sun blazing down, Australia's best bowler let go with the first ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a baseball pitch (about 65 m.p.h.), hit the ground just in front of the batsman, where he would have to hit it on the pickup. England's lead-off man blocked it off to one side. The fourth of the Test Matches, the World Series of cricket...
...screen of television's future is not wholly dark: 1) a new, supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...
Arms & Frequencies Sirs: TIME and FORTUNE, in recent comment about reproduction of recorded music, have said disparagingly that Zenith's Cobra tone arm cuts out frequencies above 5,000 cycles, and have attributed a much finer quality of reproduction to a pickup ranging out to 12,000 cycles...
...shuffle rhythm; but the old majestic grandeur, characteristic of those of his profession who were trained where the Mississippi spills into the Gulf, is never lost. He can provide piquant spicing for an ensemble chorus, but when he takes off on his own over the rhythm, the suddent emotional pickup is enough to send chills down susceptible spines...
Zenith's "Cobra Arm" pickup almost eliminates surface scratches, says FORTUNE, but in order to do so also cuts out frequencies higher than 5,000 cycles...