Word: scan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...implementation of a computerized X-ray technique, the CAT scan, constitutes a major breakthrough in research methods, New said yesterday...
From that first taste of fame I was hooked, I had to have "ink." On into high school the peculiar malady stuck with me. The morning after every game I would pick up the paper and scan the sports pages for the recap of our game--and for my name. After the season I would re-enact each game from the written record provided by our friendly sportswriter...
...average night, the two police officers start by signing the logbook at San Francisco's Northern District police station. They scan the district's crime sheet, undergo inspection, then climb into a black, unmarked patrol car and exchange kisses before setting out to work...
Nicknamed the "monster" or "Ivan the Terrible," the Soviet station ranges across the standard short-wave radio band, sometimes jamming as many as 100 frequencies at once. Its directional beam sweeps across northern Europe and reflects off the Arctic ionosphere to scan the U.S. for missile launchings. Interference seems to be most severe in Scandinavia...
Geoffrey G. Jackson of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital said while a medical record would not disappear from a hospital floor at Brigham, "a person could come in with a white coat and scan a record at this or any other hospital...