Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manufacturers Philco and Du Mont demonstrated machines designed to get a much-better-than-ordinary picture from TV film. Using prisms and a new light source, the machines (already in production) scan the film continuously, thus eliminating the flicker of ordinary film projection...
...room on the first level of Lamont is a collection of past examinations containing, many hope, a clue to future questions. Anxious students scan these paper-bound volumes looking for some trend or favorite topic on which they can wager the tag-end of their study time. Even those who enter examinations well prepared find solace in studying professors' past performances...
After thus giving Merton an A for effort, Benedictine Graham goes on to scan Merton's message to readers. He admits the deep appeal of this message-"at a time when men are perplexed with fear and disillusionment, the call of the ascetic to world-renunciation can go to the head like wine." But how deep does the message go, and how true is it? Asks Graham: Is Thomas Merton "an exponent of Christian holiness?-or a preacher of pseudo-perfectionism...
...Cambridge green where you seldom see the policeman's blue. That is Cambridge Common. Since most policemen are cruising the city in their cozy cars and the others are patroling such arcas as East Cambridge and Central Square, the Common has no watchman. Police say the prowl cars scan the streets and beat-men guard business establishments. They ask: Why patrol Grass...
...that such things as missiles, ice formations, birds, meteors, and honest misinterpretations of natural phenomena account for all but 20% of them. That still left plenty unexplained. So the Air Force plans to distribute 200 special cameras to competent observers and has ordered some powerful new telescopes that will scan the sky continuously from horizon to horizon...