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Word: electro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That era's dream machines were the phonograph and the movie projector, but they worked songs and pictures that opened romantic vistas so different from today's defined and redefined motion-coloring-books. The surpisingly good production at South House evokes Menagerie's melancholy past but knows also our electro-mood present and cries beautifully at the future that has passed into everlasting regret...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...which employs laser light to produce accurate three-dimensional images, has long been used by engineers to study stresses in building materials and machine parts. Now one of holography's pioneers is developing a new use for the 30-year-old process. Physicist George Stroke, head of the Electro-Optical Sciences Laboratory of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has found a way to use holography to see into crystals and view the arrangement of their atoms from inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Molecules in 3-D | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...scientific breakthroughs of today to create the new products of tomorrow. With his encouragement, his companies developed the laser, communications satellites and a dizzying array of esoteric weaponry. As one senior Pentagon intelligence officer puts it, "He was something of a genius in understanding far-out concepts of electro-optical systems, infra-red sensors and other sophisticated gear from undersea to outer space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...center will use the funds to try to develop a portable electro-cardiogram analyzer, a probe which measures the blood flow rate in tissue, and two larger instruments to analyze respiratory and dizziness data...

Author: By Eileen King, | Title: Joint Harvard-MIT Medical Program Receives $1 Million | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

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