Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north to pass 900 miles north of Hawaii. It entered the U.S. near the Oregon-California boundary and finally landed near Jackson, Miss. The whole trip (roughly 10,000 miles) took three days and two hours. The balloon's maximum speed when pushed by the high-altitude jet stream was 200 m.p.h. The third balloon cannot be located because of instrument failure, but the next four were launched successfully. When last reported, they were spread out between Japan and north-central Canada...
...news in the French press (Gruenther had already whipped through the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune). At his desk, Gruenther hands a secretary six or seven Dictaphone records filled with instructions and answers to letters that he had dictated at home (once she was startled when the stream of instructions was broken by an impatient feminine voice: "Al, for God's sake, it's 2 o'clock. Come...
Ranging Demands. Soon a steady stream of Gruenthergrams-paper slips bearing orders, queries or demands-is rocketing from his desk. In the office outside few staffers bother to sit down, on the theory that nobody can get off fast enough from a sitting start when a Gruenthergram comes sizzling out of the commanding general's office. The Gruenthergrams range as far and wide as the general's far-ranging mind. Samples: "Please investigate the scratching and meows on the roof." "It seems to me that about a year ago I sent to G-2 a study dealing with...
Bendix's Lumicon is a sophisticated television apparatus. It has a camera tube that views a scene, such as a dimly lighted room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals. Then a picture tube (with 1,029 "lines" of light instead of the usual 525) turns the signals into a reproduction of the scene in front of the camera. The big difference between the Lumicon and an ordinary TV setup is that the electronic signals are strengthened enormously, making the picture on the tube much brighter than the scene that the camera is viewing...
Author Ives (two years Adlai's senior) evokes that lost Midwest world before the first of the great wars, where peace, prosperity, honor and family love composed the air the children breathed. In the big, chestnut-shaded house in Bloomington, Ill., with its adjoining pasture and quiet stream, the blue Dresden kerosene lamps were lit when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened...