Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Cross was ahead only 25 to 15, but the Crimson's spark-plug Captain Bill Hickey fouled out just before the first half. From then on the Holy Cross giants never were challenged. The tall Crusaders set up a strong defense around the boards and Harvard could only shoot from the outside...
...Nobody Wanted. Harry Truman began his year of triumph a sorely beset man. He was popular with almost nobody. The country grinned at the G.O.P. jeers: "Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can," "To err is Truman," "I'm just mild about Harry." Eastern wags even gibed at his farmer's habit of rising early: he did it only to have more time to put both feet in his mouth...
...Collins of the University of Rochester announced that he has developed an automatic scintillation counter with an electronic eye. Dr. Collins uses a disc of anthracene (a coal tar product that is kin to the naphthalene in mothballs). The disc gives off flashes of light when atomic particles shoot through it. Dr. Collins does nothing so crude as to watch the flashes of light with his eye and a microscope. He pipes the light through a Lucite rod into a photomultiplier tube that can count as many as 100,000 flashes a second...
...streets as often as they did in print. One is reported to have kept a card over his desk: "Subscriptions received from 9 to 4; challenges from 11 to 12 only!" A newsman who was slow on the draw had no future. (But editors were careful not to shoot a subscriber...
...weeks after the prince was born (TIME, Nov. 22), London editors realized that they were getting a royal runaround. They guessed that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen...