Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blaming Stockholm for the crash, the Italian Line charged that the Swedish ship failed to keep a good lookout or make effective use of her radar, was proceeding at immoderate speed through the fog, failed to stop engines after hearing Andrea Doria's fog signal forward of her beam, altered course to starboard without ascertaining the course and position of Andrea Doria, failed to sound proper whistle signals, failed to stop and reverse engines when the danger of collision became apparent, and was proceeding eastward in the path of westbound vessels...
Last week Publishers Simon & Schuster were beaming over the page proofs of Newman's latest work that will be published next month. The World of Mathematics is a massive, four-volume anthology of the best writing in the field, from the time man started to figure on papyrus to the automatons that can replace man. The editors have reason to beam. The anthology is already a runaway bestseller-an astounding fact, since publishers traditionally expect prestige rather than profits from first-rate scientific books. Prodded by a $100,000 advertising campaign, the public has almost bought out the first...
...beam a little light into this area of ignorance, the Journal of Chronic Diseases last week devoted its entire issue (110 editorial pages) to pain and its relief. The learned contributing experts are far from unanimous on how to define or measure pain, but they agree on one thing: something should be done about...
...instead, a crowd of angry Roman Catholics marched through the streets shouting anti-Perón slogans and chanting hymns to show their disapproval of the government's feud with the church. Against so dark a background, last week's celebration stood out like a beam of sunlight...
Last week the Canadian government declassified a system which puts the meteor trails to work. Called "Janet" and developed by a group led by Dr. P. A. Forsyth, the system comprises two ground stations as much as 1,000 miles apart which constitute a "circuit." Their beam antennae look toward each other. When a meteor hits in the right place between them and leaves its reflecting trail, a signal from the receiving station reaches the transmitting station and tells it to send its message...