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...even more radical flat tube under development by General Electric Co. gets rid of the vacuum, and it has no electron beam either. It consists of a sheet of "electroluminescent" phosphor that glows when it is excited by an electrical voltage. The phosphor is sandwiched between a matrix of horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming...
Once in Longfellow, Poggioli could not resist making another attempt to get rid of a few students. "This class," he said, "will meet promptly at 11:10. Supposing you come in after 11:10--if it isn't raining why don't you take a walk...
...does not-and cannot-adhere strictly to judicial principles, with the "defendant" presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For guilt in the legal sense is not involved. The idea is not to wait until the drunken employee gives away an important secret; it is to get rid of him beforehand...
...Department of Agriculture, desperately trying to get rid of its butter without disrupting the markets of friendly nations, is cautiously excited about the great ghee plan. It might be the greatest idea in international farm trade since Mark Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers dreamed of a great sales organization-with its headquarters in Constantinople and its hindquarters in Further India-to sell patented eyewash to ophthalmia-ridden Orientals...
...glanced up from my copy of the Kurier, to se the ruins of the Reichstag far to the right. Two more stops to East Berlin. It was about time to get rid of the paper: I had been warned that being seen with a West Berlin newspaper across the border could mean at least a night in jail. So I stuffed the sheets deep under the wooden bench...