Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surfeit of basketball players are among the Eli outfielders including Tom Redden, Gerry Breen, and Art Fitzgerald. The latter replace the injured .400 hitter Dick Tettlebach in left field, and his rash of extra base hits last Saturday made him high man at the plate as Yale beat Princeton...
...real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime wife, redhead Rita Hayworth, but not an actress...
...sales tax comes off silver plate and watches with Braille dials (of which 300 were sold in Canada last year...
...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...
Steve Howe, currently flashing a sharp 465 batting average, should back up Clay's consistently stellar pitching with support at the plate...