Word: pingpong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From first frame to last, the film goes bouncing like a pingpong ball in a washing machine through four kinds of time: future, past, present, conditional...
...films the little lady-she stands 5 ft. 1½ in., weighs 100 Ibs.-has developed, by sheer work and sheer nylons, into an effective hoofer and a get-by ballad-belter. And in recent films she has emerged as a competent utility comedienne, a half-fast Hutton, a pingpong Ball with lots of bounce...
...dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...
...supposedly the right age for children to start school. But scientific study of the functions of the brain-memory, perception, intuition, imagination, conceptualization -has hardly been touched. Less has been learned about learning in humans than about learning in animals: Pavlov's dogs, for example, or the pingpong-playing pigeons that led to the invention of the teaching machine. The hope in organizing a Center for Cognitive Studies is to bring together psychologists, physiologists, philosophers, linguistics experts, and even certain technicians who can offer experience with computers. Then, relying heavily on experiments, they try "to work out a theory...
...Selectric," as it is called, is shaped like an ordinary typewriter, but its carriage does not move, nor do the keys extend into levers that make the impression on paper. Instead, the Selectric has mounted inside its case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon...