Word: arco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Point's entrance exams are still months away but many a would-be cadet is already worrying about how he should prepare. Last week the worriers could get some help from a book called How to Pass Annapolis and West Point Entrance Exams (Arco; $3.50). Judging by the book's sample questions, candidates would find that the Point expects from every man quite...
...start off, the candidates must master a mock set of rules. In Arco's example of an artificial-language, plurals end in s, numerals must follow nouns and kirn, kima, kime, kimi mean who, whose, to whom, and whom. Candidates must then use the rules to count (bal is one, bals is ten, balsebal is eleven, etc.) and to conjugate verbs (binob, I am; binol, you are; binom, he is; binof, she is; binos, it is; binobs, we are; binols you are; binoms, they...
...instruments were needed, and new kinds of pumps, controls, heat-exchangers and safety devices. Rickover, then a captain, worked in a swarm of difficulties, opposed by many in the Navy. But he won his battle. On May 31, Commissioner Murray, with Rickover standing beside him, opened a valve at Arco, Idaho. A shaft began turning over, and the world's first practical nuclear power plant was in successful operation...
Atomic energy has passed a new and important milestone. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean told an Atlantic City meeting that the AEC's "breeder reactor" at arco. Idaho has been pronounced successful: The development multiplies by more than the energy-producing potential of the world's uranium. An analogy spelled out by Dean explained what atomic breeding...
This is what has been done at Arco under the direction of Dr. Walter Zinn of the Argonne National Laboratory. The AEC has given few details, but the reactor certainly used new structural materials (such as zirconium) which absorb very few neutrons, leaving enough to breed an excess of plutonium. It must have been running long enough to prove that it actually "breeds...