Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well then, you can start by checking my kit. But first put these boots on for me. I think I'll use those darker, rather tired ones there...
...victory. ¶ On the West Coast, Halfback Dick Bass maintained his lead as the nation's leading ground-gainer, averaged 11.3 yds. a carry for 135 yds. as little (enrollment: 1,670) College of the Pacific rolled over Brigham Young 26-8. Outgained in all departments, Navy made use of a rocklike defense to stop Michigan drives seven times, pull a 20-14 upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled...
...with polyester Fiberglas, geodesic domes proved just the thing for the DEW Line radomes. Says he, with the satisfaction of the man whose mousetrap has at last clicked: "The DEW Line radomes stretch from western Alaska to Baffin Island, and the Marine Corps has almost 1,000 domes in use, some in the Antarctic. North Pole, South Pole, I'm all around the world...
...Check Trap. To foil bad-check passers, a fingerprint camera was put on the market by Identity Recorder Co. of Monrovia, Calif, for use in supermarkets and other big-volume stores. The customer rests his check and ten fingertips on the boxlike (18½ by 13½ in.) gadget and the cashier presses a button, getting a picture of both check and fingertips. If the check bounces, the prints are turned over to police. Identity Recorders are leased at $30 a month for the first machine, $6 for each additional machine. Cost per picture (after 1.500 free exposures...
What Now? At 19 Tanguy still cherished the image of a kind of prodigal son's return. But when he finally found his father in Paris, the boy was coldly rebuffed. Tanguy's mother, who also turned up in Paris, had equally little use for him. She was still a left-winger, lost in the intellectual Minotaur's cave of the '30s. At novel's end, with a wistful touch of Chaplinesque pathos, the 25-year-old Del Castillo, currently living in Paris, asks, "What is to become of Tanguy now?" and offers the shadow...