Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrier. Professor Gold knew that gas in interplanetary space is too thin to carry ordinary shock waves, which propagate by gas molecules bumping against each other. But solar shock waves, he argued, are different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like a weather front," he explains. "Before, you are living in a very quiet zone. Suddenly a front sweeps over, and behind this front is a region of great disturbance and turbulence...
...inches long filled with very low-pressure gas. When a 4 billion-watt electrical spark from a bank of condensers is discharged across the end of the tube, the magnetic field that surrounds it should expand-so said Gold's theory-into the tube, pushing the gas ahead of it in a small, tame version of a solar shock wave...
...right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
...build Kiesler's new departure in architecture in the garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where a full-scale Japanese house was erected for exhibition five years ago. Never a man to waste time waiting for the decisions of practical men, Kiesler has plunged ahead into yet another project-a room for meditation, in which paintings open like windows and sculptures burst treelike from the floor...
...Gains. The news pouring from Government and corporate statisticians told of gains all around. Industrial production for April rose two more points to another record high at 149 on the Federal Reserve index. Nondurables were up a point, and slow-moving durable goods were finally sprinting ahead with a four-point advance to 164 on the index and the highest level since early 1957. With the housing boom still clipping along in April at a record rate of 1,390,000 new homes a year, output of building materials was up sharply; so were appliances, TV sets, furniture...