Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
...whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an injury was a mortal blow to the team, There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense...
...whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team. There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense. Returning also are such capable performers, in the 1946 backfield as Leo Flynn, Paul Lazzaro, Jim Noonan, Paul Shafer, Bill Henry, and Frank Miklos...
...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...
...Navy radar men thought the McCormick explanation "possible but extremely unlikely." One expert went so far as to insist: "a close-in target is always seen, unless the radar is out of order...