Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airliners now follow radio beams from airport to airport. By keeping on the proper side of the beam they can avoid collisions. But the beam system provides only a limited number of "lanes." It gives traffic operators little exact information about airplanes in flight at different altitudes, and insufficient control over them...
Other, less concrete issues fall into the beam of Mr. Bender's searchlight. The fact, for instance, that students "are not very hopeful of the good times coming and tend to concentrate on digging individual foxholes in he shape of training for careers" stands opposed to the non-professionalized aims of the general education plan. This conflict and the issues of tuition and extra-curricular life are the biggest but by no means the only questions raised by Mr. Bender's "Report," which covers everything from the problems of the married veteran to those of the engineer who has forgotten...
...rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...
...first year and a half, Quizdown has flowered like a pressagent's imagination. Boards of education, startled at seeing book learning presented so that children cry for it, beam on the program. Its originator and chief promoter is no high-powered radio idea man, but a blonde, big-eyed ex-Powers model...
...back of Sir Robert's head: a "radar telescope" which will magnify on its scope any object of interest within the range of the beam. The observer at night or in fog can "tune in" a distant speck for better examination...