Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Partly because he has triumphed over the frustrations suffered by others, fellow muckrakers almost to a man hail Anderson as a hero. Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan rasps: "I think he is one of the absolutely greatest there ever was." I.F. Stone finds him "filled with a good, wholesome attitude that every public official is an s.o.b. unless proved otherwise...
Such "alphanumeric" displays are not entirely new. Since the 1960s, cathode ray tubes (CRTs) similar to those in home TV sets have been used to perform such varied chores as giving stock information in brokerage offices, confirming reservations at distant hotels, and even showing air traffic patterns over crowded airports. For simpler tasks, such as those performed by electronic meters-where only numbers are needed on display panels-there are smaller and less expensive devices called gas discharge tubes. The Burroughs Corp.'s popular Nixie tube, for example, contains ten overlapping electrodes that form the digits...
Between Time and Timbuktu. Bob and Ray in a Kurt Vonnegut comedy science fiction, 8, March 13. Chan...
WELL, most of the time we stayed at the beach. It was too cold to swim very much. We...collected shells. And we saw a sting ray...
...industry to make a fresh start. In his prime ministerial broadcast at week's end, Mr. Heath did his best to reassert his government's authority and set a new trend toward his dedicated aim of Disraeli's "one nation." In the light of this slender ray, there are those who insist that "the British will pull through-we always do." But facts must be faced...