Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost its fascination, everybody knew that the Japs had been beaten. The precise minute of capitulation no longer made much difference. Yet when the radio and press flashed the word that the Japs had accepted U.S. terms there were enough of vigilant stay-ups to start one more round of celebrations...
...bugaboo in television's dream of a coast-to-coast network is the formidable fact that the world is round. Until television beams are bent, reception will remain limited to line-of-sight distances which seldom exceed 50 miles...
...simplest terms, a radar set shoots radio energy at a target, catches the reflected echo, times the round trip, divides by two, and. since the speed of the radio wave is known, translates all the information into a "blip" of light on a fluorescent (television) screen showing the target's distance and position...
...time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target 100 miles away), and record its message without interference from the next...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...