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Word: rheostat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit of a spaceship. A three-panel console has 150 buttons and 70 knobs. To bring out a star, the operator pushes two black buttons simultaneously and turns a rheostat marked STAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Starry Road to Twelfth Night | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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