Word: boiler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Island in the Sun (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), an unraveling of Alec Waugh's 1955 bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic...
...free piston engine is a hybrid: a simplified piston engine that develops no direct mechanical power, but delivers high pressure exhaust gas that can be made to run a turbine, just like steam from a boiler (see diagram...
When the chain reaction starts, the water boils, forming high-pressure steam as in an ordinary coal-fired boiler. The steam, which is slightly radioactive, goes directly to a turbogenerator which turns its energy into electricity. Lack of an intermediate heat-exchanger to generate nonradioactive steam is the characteristic feature of the EBWR, and one of its advantages as an economical power producer. Chief disadvantage: because of the radioactivity of the steam, the turbine, condenser and related equipment are also radioactive and must be operated by remote control...
Cold Hands. Here last week the new rector of the institution, spidery young Father Angelo Sappa, presided over a black, grey and white sea of 190 nuns from 39 orders. It was bitter cold, and the boiler broke down, but Theologian Sappa made a parable...
...workers who helped to build this center, 'What are you doing?' he would say: 'I am putting in window frames,' or 'I am putting in electric lights.' One of them used to say to me, 'I am making the boiler work.'" Father Sappa smiled and rubbed his icy hands. "But these were only individual objectives. All of them-even the man who didn't make the boiler work-had one greater objective: to make this center work. It is working now-though the boilermaker failed in his individual task-because...