Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often involved in stringing power lines through mountains and backwoods areas, other methods of transmitting power have long been sought. Microwaves, which generate a current when they strike an electrical conductor like copper, may provide an answer. Instead of being fed into power lines, electricity produced at a power station could be used to generate microwaves that would be beamed at a moun tain-top radar station or observatory where they would be converted back into electrical energy...
...even higher. He was promoted to the brand-new post of corporate vice president of North American vehicle product development. Frey is Detroit's sharpest idea man. Besides the Mustang, he is responsible for such innovations as the four-door Thunderbird, the stereo dashboard tape deck, and the station-wagon door that opens out as well as down. He is one of the few auto executives with experience in all three of the industry's essential areas: design, manufacture and sales. In his new job, which covers operations in all Ford divisions, he will take on such "think...
...Harvard's property and personnel." In practice, this amounts to a combination of caretaking and emergency service, with a minimum of what could be termed police work. A routine shift involves turning on and off lights, and checking broken locks, windows, or suspiciously open doors. The force's three station wagon cruisers are used almost exclusively for transporting emergency cases to the health services, though at Radcliffe, their mere presence is an effective deterrent to the "peeping toms" who used to plague the Radcliffe dorms...
...Heinemann, who had taken over WNBC-TV's evening weather shows, couldn't help looking like an elderly but appealing high school boy hauled up to the front of the classroom for a recitation. NBC Radio's spot announcements were peppered with statements like, "WNBC, the station that never strikes out," while ABC Radio proclaimed that "more of the pickets you want to see are in front of all-American radio 77, WABC...
Puck & Pan. He arrived at Cambridge with a scholarship at Trinity. "A shy prig," is his own description; too shy to ask where the toilets were, he walked to the one at the railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...