Word: detecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detect a certain confusion of idiom, a conflict in tone, almost a confounding of genres, in what you say." I threw a thesaurus at him, roguishly...
...bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters, their range may be only a few miles, hence the need for many stations in a VOR/DMET system...
...international Conference of Experts that met in Geneva last summer concluded that a worldwide system of 180 inspection stations could detect nearly all underground nuclear tests. Any explosion of even the modest energy of 5 kilotons, they figured, could be distinguished from the noise made by small earthquakes and other natural causes. Only about 100 seismic "events" a year would be borderline cases. These could be followed up and checked by other means...
...getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play is from a literature totally unfamiliar to modern audiences. "What we are doing," he says proudly, "is a very old-fashioned thing...
Radio Breakthrough. Radio astronomy, said Professor Lovell. promises to break this deadlock. Already the great radio telescopes can detect colliding galaxies (which give off powerful radio waves) at distances much greater than can be reached by an optical telescope. In a few years, improved vision should enable cosmographers to peer so far into space (or back into time) that they will be able to tell which kind of universe they are looking...