Word: scans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climbed to 30,000 ft. You have that serene, floating, god-above-gravity feelingthe small miracle of flying. Your fellow god, the one in the cockpit, is mumbling the usual comforting inaudibles over the P.A. ("Off to the leftmmmmmzzz . . ."). You give the other passengers a quick scan; apparently not a hijacker in sight. A small prayer of thanks might be in order...
...terms of sheer frustration, the greatest sufferers have probably been astronomers using radio telescopes to scan the heavens. Stray terrestrial signals at frequencies similar to those being detected are a constant nuisance. It was not until the powerful radar at New York's Kennedy Airport was properly tuned that Bell Labs scientists in New Jersey were able to detect background radiation-mysterious microwave emissions from deep space, which some theorists think are the remnants of the "big bang" that created the universe...
...fact, the optics of a typical thermograph somewhat resemble early television. Using tilting and moving mirrors, the Barnes cameras scan the target horizontally and vertically. With each movement of the mirrors, the infra-red detectors take what are, in effect, quick temperature readings of a tiny portion of the subject. Before a picture is completed, as many as 40,000 "bits" of such information may be needed. The picture may be shown simply in black and white with shades of gray representing different temperature ranges. But color can be added with the use of appropriately positioned filters. Whenever there...
...trying not to be offended by the Harvard sweatshirts, T-shirts, garters, cocktail glasses, mugs, key rings, wallets, lampshades, desk blotters, and diapers on display) and cross the alley. Take the escalator to the top floor, where you will follow a series of highway signs to the section for Scan Lit 31 or Eng Sci 267x...
...rather than because of, my opus. From Professor Morrison I learned about structure and diction, how to rhyme, how to write blank verse, what fourteeners are: the real stuff of verse composition. I learned how to confine myself to form, how to think thoughts of ten beats. I could scan anything, I learned by examples what poetry really was: the structured, symbolic expression of certain ideals, especially the Good and the Beautiful...