Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship canal and across placid Lake Union, Inventor Ross put on a demonstration of his "underwater radar" that left Navy sonar experts stuttering with excitement. On his cathode-ray screen the observers could easily locate a submerged steel drum 1,200 ft. away, a garbage can at 900 ft., sand bars, dock pilings, fish nets and ropes...
...also records its information in two other ways. The returning echoes are translated into audible sounds which a trained operator, listening to the loudspeaker, can easily identify. Solid objects, for example, like the Lake Washington canal wall, give a hard, clipped ping. Signals from a smooth beach or hidden sand bar are drawn out, sound for all the world like someone scratching granite with his fingernails. And as if all this were not enough, an automatic pen-and-ink recording is made of all the signals that shine in the scopes and sing their peculiar modulations from the loudspeaker...
...sand color of the new trays was praised by Heaman for bringing out the natural color of the food and making it more appetizing than the brown-colored old ones...
Colombia's President Laureano Gómez buried his head in a glistening sand pile of rhetoric. Said he to his people at the end of his first year in office: the state of the nation is an almost unblemished "panorama of felicity." His administration has contained the cost of living, encouraged foreign capital, sent forces to fight in Korea. "The people's happiness would be perfect, their progress would have increased indescribably . . . if there had not existed disorder which perturbed the picture...
...places where dowsers thrive, says Riddick, there is water almost everywhere. It does not exist as "veins" but in saturated sand or gravel called the "water table." Certain special conditions, such as sand so fine that it cannot be filtered, or hard rock near the surface, make well-digging undesirable. A dowser who is worth his salt can avoid such hostile spots without magical assistance. Anywhere else, he is almost sure to find at least a little water...