Word: scatter
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Womb to Tomb. For the tourist in trouble, American Express is a seasoned troubleshooter, will handle just about every imaginable disaster between womb and tomb. When an Egyptologist died abroad, she left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York...
Other giveaway programs keep hoping that they will get to the top, too, if they just scatter enough loot along the way. NBC's The Big Surprise is still offering the biggest jackpot of all ($100,000) and still failing to get a jackpot-sized audience. CBS's Name That Tune has upped its ante to $25,000 without sensationally upping its rating, and ABC's Bert Parks loudly claims some sort of primacy for having dispersed "more than $5,000,000" over the years on Stop the Music and Break the Bank ("the granddaddy...
Prospects of worldwide television transmission are looking up. At last week's "scatter propagation" conference at George Washington University, electronics engineers were enthusiastic about the recently declassified techniques for transmitting "line-of-sight" waves much farther than the horizon...
...bands of waves, VHF (Very High Frequency, 30 to 60 megacycles) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency, 300 to 3.000 megacycles), have been found to scatter. No one seems to know precisely what it is that makes them do it. Meteor trails are suspected in the case of VHF. Small "blobs" of irregularity in the electrical properties of the atmosphere up to 25,000 ft. are supposed to be the scattering agent for UHF. Whatever the cause, the waves do scatter, and special apparatus has been developed for the armed services to take advantage of the scattering. Some of the equipment...
...world to the primitive conditions of the time of Cain and Abel. He even has, within the range of his grasp, means to completely exterminate the human race. Today, scientists can make a good educated guess as to the number of [bombs] needed for total world catastrophe-to scatter to the four winds, in a matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are we not playing with things that belong to God?" The concerted, atheistic threat against all we hold dear has increased and grown bolder...