Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enrico Caruso and the phonograph drove the parlor tenor to the bathtub. Now Columbia Records' Mitch Miller is trying to lure him out from behind his shower curtain. Miller, a now inaudible oboist who is nonplaying captain of Columbia's pop musicians, worked up a gimmick just corny enough to click: a chorus of 28 men singing simple, slow arrangements of the old, golden songs, and an album-jacket invitation to listeners to join in the schmalz...
...fraud and part finely honed athletic skill. Example: When he dived manacled and chained into an icy river, he swam free tense moments later, because the chains were phony and the locks were rigged to open at his touch. But he had also spent months practicing submersion in a bathtub cooled by cakes...
...built by the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. In the next week or so, a beam of antiprotons from Berkeley's great 6 billion-volt Bevatron will pass through a pipe 200 ft. long, enter an odd-looking building and strike into a glass-topped metal bathtub containing 150 gal. of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through the liquid, they will make slender, scratchlike trails of hydrogen bubbles. These trails, lasting but a fraction of a second, are the reason for the massive. $2,000,000 instrument; scientists around the world hope that photographs...
Communeshine. In Savin, Russia, according to the Soviet newspaper Literature and Life, several comrades were accused of making bathtub vodka in the communal bathhouse...
Things of the body have always been slightly suspect in the Yard. At one time it was cleanliness that the University didn't cater to--Santayana was obliged to bring a bathtub with him to Stoughton. But for many years now Buildings and Grounds has enabled freshmen to cultivate the second most important virtue...