Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend or foe) device which can be coupled directly with gun-aiming equipment was announced by the National Security Resources Board. In World War II, when an I.F.F. reported that a target was friendly, the message...
Harvard skiers who placed in the first ten were: third, Larrie Griffin; fourth, captain elect Rod Nordblom; fifth, captain Graham Taylor; seventh, Gordy Abbott; and eighth, Don Justus...
...preliminaries, Peter Munyan (Penn) pinned Joe Kozol at 5:47 with a forearm and reverse nelson; Cornell Captain Joe Calby pinned Dave Coombs with a half-nelson and bar arm at 1:51; Settani (Syracuse), decisioned Bob Aboud, 11-2; Eris Erikson (Lehigh) Rod Skinner with a cradle at Erikson is a two-time runnerup the 155-pound class. At 165, Fred (Cornell) decisioned...
Another last minute switch occurred in the 165-pound class, where Tom Connors will replace Stan Thompson. Otherwise, there will be no changes in the lineup that faced Yale last week. Joe Kozol wrestles at 121, Bob Abboud at 136, Buddy King at 145, Rod Skinner at 155, Captain Bob Claflin at 175, and Howie Houston at heavyweight...
There will be two changes in Jordan's middleweight offense. Stan Thompson stopped Tom Connors on Tuesday and will compete at 165. Connors, who wrestled at 155 against Princeton last Saturday, gives way to Rod Skinner this week...