Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story. A group of young students and I had gathered in an office. (I paused to scan the bulletin board. When I had finished and turned again to the group, I observed the young men had casually grouped themselves on one side of the room, and the young ladies on the other side. I stood with the males. Feeling a little odd, I crossed the floor to be with the weaker sex.) Only two young women were seated. When the one nearest me perceived I was standing, she instinctively arose and tendered her seat to one older than...
Weather Scanner. Vanguard's new satellite is probably the most sophisticated bit of spaceware to leave the ground so far. Its job is to scan a broad belt around the earth, reporting on the cloud patterns that indicate the trend of the earth's weather. Ordinary meteorological methods keep accurate track of the weather over only 5% of the earth's surface. Vanguard II will raise this figure toward 25%, giving hope of understanding how worldwide weather works...
...annual features of TIME'S news coverage is the Year-End Review, in which the editors scan the U.S. economy for the year just past, and present a forecast for the year ahead. Over the last decade nothing has loomed larger in the financial news than Wall Street's bull, long a symbol of a rising stock market. But to TIME'S editors the bull does not mean Wall Street alone. He is also a symbol of the power of the U.S. economy. In the past ten years TIME'S readers have seen five bulls...
...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
...winter, new domestic orders for metal-cutting and shaping tools briefly hit $29.8 million in March (caused by bunching up three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...