Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were kidding before, But not any more. Get your-er-selves into space Or we'll take your place. Stafford and Cernan themselves wryly presented the launch crew with a yard-long red and white baton topped by a light bulb. It was a match, they explained, that the crew was to use to achieve a successful "burn...
...London today reminds you of Shakespeare's London, why? Shakespeare's London was animated by patriotism born of the achievements of Elizabethan sea captains. What victories do Londoners celebrate today? All the turned-on young men and women will burn out as quickly as a light bulb of British manufacture...
...leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated by a naked light bulb, cracks in the window have been plugged with paper and Scotch tape. When a bevy of ballerinas swept onstage recently, they stirred up billows of dust that all but choked off the lead baritone. Admits one Met official: "There isn't one square foot in the house where...
Disciplined Waves. The basic principles of holography were worked out 20 years ago by British Physicist Dennis Gabor, but they could not be put to use effectively without the peculiar light that lasers now provide. Unlike "white" light from the sun or an electric light bulb, which radiates in all directions and consists of a whole spectrum of colors, light waves from a laser are highly disciplined or "coherent." They are of only one color-which means that they are all of the same frequency. And they all emerge from the laser in step-in phase with each other...
Deep in the bowels of Widener, an unnoticed cardboard box languishes under a soft blanket of dust amid myriad shelves of forgotten books. Once every few days, a leisurely old man walks down the silent aisle and stops, pulling the cord for a naked bulb to dispel the gloom. Bending over to the bottom shelf, the white-haired man takes out the box and lifts its lid. He smiles...