Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanding robot was a snarl of electronic equipment affectionately known as "the Brain." Everything it did on the long flight was "preset" before the start. In mid-Atlantic, the Brain picked up radio signals from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Later it picked up a beam from Droitwich, England, and followed that for a while. When the plane neared Brize Norton, the wide-awake Brain concentrated on a special landing beam from an R.A.F. radio and made a conventional automatic landing...
...Brain a guided missile steerer. It would not have reached Brize Norton if the British had not sent out a beam to lead it. In wartime, enemy countries would not be so helpful. The Brain's principal use will be in commercial airliners, to help pilots keep on their courses in bad weather and land in thickest soup...
...beam. It's simply that the only thing which makes a run-away game interesting is scoring and more scoring...
...factor that makes Mac beam brightest is the success of the pre-season practice. Twenty-five athletes reported on the Business School Field for the first workout last Monday and by Saturday the number had risen to 40. "Why, before this year." Mac said, "no one ever appeared until the first day of registration...
...factor that makes Mac beam the brightest is the success of the pre-season practice. Twenty-five athletes reported on the Business School Field for the first practice Monday and by yesterday the number had risen to 40. "Why, before this year," Mac said, "no one ever appeared until the first Jay of registration...