Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through a revolving (15 revolutions per second) antenna system that relies on two concentric cylindrical rings, one mounted with a single rod-shaped element, the other fitted with nine rods. Whirling around the antenna core, these rods, set at different modulations, "tag" (modulate) the signals as they go out. Every time the inner rod passes "zero" (north), a regulating signal is transmitted. In a sense, this signal is Tacan's compass needle. The airplane's Tacan separates all the signals, computes their differences, and, all without a sound, converts...
...Roman Catholic who intends remaining in the faith even if every Catholic including the Pope quits, I disapprove of Fathers Kunkel and Varga's Marilyke tag drive . . . A mother and daughter who believe in modesty do not have to read a tag on a dress to tell if it is modest...
...middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald's own tag line to The Great Gatsby. Looking at the corpse, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...
...every ten members of the U.S. Army and Air Force has the wrong blood type marked on his identification tag, a group of doctors reported in the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal. Chief causes: rapid or careless testing, clerical errors. Chief danger: death from transfusion of incompatible blood types...
Latest crusader for the Marilyke look is the Rev. Charles Varga, 27, pastor of St. John the Apostle Church in Linden, N.J. No retailer in Father Varga's parish has so far turned the tagging committee away, though many have managed to keep their enthusiasm within bounds. "Of course we let them tag the dresses," said one Linden shopkeeper. "What are we going to do - commit business suicide? This is a 65% Catholic community." But one buyer in a large Manhattan department store declared that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them...