Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most rugged, down-to-bare-facts night life on the continent of Europe-at decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play, pitting good hotels and restaurants against bad, good tourist buys...
Thus ran an Associated Press story last week, and it brought one member editor to a boil. Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer lashed out in an editorial charging the A.P. with trafficking in propaganda itself. Scolded he-'When [A.P.] accepts, for worldwide dissemination, cracks at Russians from unnamed 'officials' it is making itself a mouthpiece, not an objective news service ... What officials? The story did not name them. Undoubtedly the reporter was not allowed to do so. If not, the story should have said directly that 'the State Department said...
...open end is filled with dozens of beaver-busy organizations in a daily boil of dances, pageants, picnics-holding "buzz sessions," helping out with "sicking" (i.e., sick calls) and organizing "casserole brigades." There are hunting and fishing groups, a men's discussion group named The Carpenters ("they try to face real realities"), a Woman's Association, a boys' hot-rod group, "family festivals," camps for all ages, a radio program, a chatty church newspaper, ten choirs ("SING! SING! SING!" says a recruiting pamphlet). In a recent sermon, one minister ruefully quoted a newcomer as saying to another...
Scientists have searched for a means of turning heat directly into electric current since a series of experiments in the 1880s showed that a heated metal plate will "boil off" clouds of electrons. Reason: an electric current is simply a flow of electrons. Last week, before the 124th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, General Electric announced that it had turned the trick. The device that may change the world's means of making power: a small "thermionic converter" that now turns about 9% of its heat energy into electricity, may eventually convert...
...disclose neither the vapor nor the method of treating the plates.) The plate with the higher potential is heated to about 1,500° centigrade, the other to around 1,000° centigrade. The first plate is hot enough to release electrons; the second is not. Clouds of electrons boil off the hotter plate (the cathode) and are attracted to the cooler plate (the anode), thereby producing a current of electricity strong enough to light a small bulb. In effect, the device is a simple battery, energized by heat...