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Word: beame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sailing ships, and they all had plenty of passengers aboard, by necessity working together. "In history," Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin explained, "even the great explorer had been the man who drew others to a common purpose." Try to imagine an individual so rugged he could raise a roof beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Rugged Individual Rides Again | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...laboratory accident has allowed scientists at Cornell University to melt the face of diamond with a laser beam. While heating a mixture of graphite and potassium between two diamond "anvils," geology student Jon S. Gold inadvertently misfired the laser beam at a higher power than planned. Not only did the laser convert the graphite to diamond, but it melted an approximately one tenth of an inch furrow across the diamond's face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science World Roundup | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

...monkey contains the instruments and goes up and down in the stratosphere; it consists of three elongated hollow "doughnuts" which fire a beam of light through its center hole as stratospheric gasses pass through. The light absorbs oxygen and measures the concentration of atmospheric gasses...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Up, Up and Away | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Insulting Us with Insults | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Although the ponytails are similar, the figure on the balance beam in your photograph is Kathy Johnson, not Julianne McNamara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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