Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulky picture or cathode-ray tubes used in conventional TV sets, a beam of electrons originates in the stem of the tube and sweeps rapidly to and fro across the tube face. Its intensity is controlled by the signal from the TV station. As the beam hits dots of phosphorescent material in the tube face, they glow with a brightness proportional to the strength of the beam. This rapid action produces at least 25 still pictures per second on the screen, creating the illusion of moving images. In the new Westinghouse system, the images are also formed by producing glowing...
Canales was a six-medal winner for his native Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Games last summer while Gordon is a national record holder in the breaststroke in South Africa. "Gordon has been very successful on a minimum training program," coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "We're going to see if he can handle a stepped-up program this winter. And Toal is as good a freshman diver as I've seen...
...others quit before," coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "It isn't any more appropriate for me to comment now than on other swimmers who leave with different abilities...
...seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary disdain in a sentence or two. His fictional colleagues may be clever; he is clairvoyant...
...festivities are official. Cambridge people, beautiful and otherwise, will gather for tailgate picnics before the game, and for other entertainments afterwards. Two perennial party-givers with reputations for attracting people more beautiful than otherwise are Harvard Overseer Maurice Lazarus '37 and Business School professor Ray Goldberg...