Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawback of picture size might well have a happy ending, thought the FCC. It is caused by the one "mechanical" feature of the CBS apparatus-the spinning, motor-driven color wheel which must be more than twice the size of the TV screen. The FCC saw a way out through the adoption of a tri-color picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration...
...went up from the TV manufacturers and dealers who saw a threat to the millions invested in black & white sets. Emerson and Pilot hurried to join RCA in the Chicago court test; Dr. Allen B. Du Mont went on TV over his own network to demonstrate a CBS color wheel (for a 30-inch screen not yet on the market) and ridiculed the CBS system as giving "a Model-T type color picture." In full-page newspaper ads, Hallicrafters charged that "this ill-advised action of the FCC is a threat to the American way of life." A CBS suggestion...
Even the aspiring Yalie may not know the answer, but he soon finds out. He is going to Yale to become a Success. His undergraduate life is a four-year push to become a "wheel," to be socially acceptable, to approximate that archtype of merit, the Yale Man. Not that the Administration nurse this tradition: president and deans admit ruefully that Yale is a college of come-outers and go-getters and deplores the philosophy of "success for the sake of success." But the tradition is still there. A recent study of Yale society concluded, "Because the definition of success...
...makes the grade, his reward is "prestige." That's a word often heard around New Haven. When a man breaks onto the Yale Record he is admired by everyone, not because he can write well, which he often can't but because he has achieved success and become a wheel. As one Eli explained, he "fought and conquered." Ask a Yalie who the "big men on campus" are, and he'll reel off a dozen or so names and positions. Year-book polls show that 70 percent of the students "admire students who occupy important extra-curricular positions...
...usually open to everyone in the college, and even out of the college. Perhaps their popularity stems from this: they honor the universal goals of conviviality and extra-curricular success, and therefore are to be sought after. The boy who gets in becomes that much more of a wheel...