Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing a radioactive world needs is a good "atom-sized" Geiger counter. Last week the University of Chicago proudly displayed a handy, hip-pocket model. The new gadget is so easy to read that anybody can tell when his surroundings become dangerously radioactive...
...pocket model was developed by Dr. O. G. Landsverk and two aids as a wartime device (e.g., to protect troops in such hazardous spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move...
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...
After presenting an alert M.I.T. team with the tying goal half way through the third period, the Varsity soccer team rallied to eke out a 2 to 1 win in the cloning minutes of the last yeriod yesterday afternoon on Tech's vest-pocket field. Hans Estin, a new center forward, scored both goals for Harvard...
...myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked out three of my teeth and ran me out of town. All I had in my pocket was three francs, and of that I had to pay a doctor two francs 50 centimes for mending my jaw. I gave up wrestling...