Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after dinner one evening last week, Physicist John A. Simpson got an important message from the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: the alarm bell on the cosmic ray monitoring device in Simpson's office was ringing. When he got to his office, Simpson discovered that cosmic rays were bombarding the earth at a phenomenal rate of 3,000 per minute (normal rate for the area: 200 per minute). The activity, noted by observatories around the world, followed by less than 30 minutes a giant solar flare. It was the strongest indication so far that cosmic...
...down promptly at the first sign of trouble. But if a vacuum tube or relay in the monitor fails, the main machine is like a building whose night watchman has dropped dead. Trouble can start and get out of hand with no one to correct it or give the alarm...
John W. Reboul '59 discovered the blaze and turned in the alarm. He and David L. Gunn '59 grabbed fire extinguishers and ran to the fire. The first spraying brought the fire under control and the second reduced it to a pile of embers...
...cheap, simple meter to measure blood flow directly. It was made by Dr. Henry H. Swain of the University of Michigan from the pinion gear of a discarded alarm clock, stiff wire, rubber tubing, glass bulbs. The tube is inserted directly into an artery. Blood passes through the tube, moves a pen that records on a graph any changes in the blood flow. Cost...
Like a happy hot-rodder, the auto industry sped through 1955 leading the economy at a record clip. Last week, when the inevitable pause came, some, grown accustomed to the impossible, expressed alarm...