Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made his picture debut, two-week-old John Clark Gable was billed by his mama as "a carbon copy" of his late cinema-king father. Purred a radiant Kay Williams Spreckels Gable: "When. I compare Clark's baby pictures with those of John, they are practically identical. He has a crop of dark brown hair just like his father's, and his little fingers and legs are really Clark...
...Billy Rose Theater to the editorial offices of the New York Herald Tribune. In his cubicle, Walter Kerr has 50 minutes to write. Jean sits near by and reads The Hollywood Reporter, Photoplay, even the scrapbooked reviews of former critics. Only on the way home by train, Walter's carbon in hand, does she begin to discuss the play with him. The talk goes on and on, as it does nearly every night, over several bottles of beer, until 3 or 4 a.m. In fact, "I don't think we've been to bed before i o'clock more than...
Using energy taken from the light, the algae absorbed the carbon dioxide given off by McClure's lungs and replaced it with oxygen. The air in the closed system smelled like wet hay, but it stayed rich in oxygen (21%), while its CO2 content never got higher than a harmless...
...have come from Japan or Indo-China. Headrests looked equally Asian, and so did a drawing on a pottery spindle weight that showed a stylized porter carrying burdens on the ends of a pole, as many Asians do. Many sitting figurines had a vague resemblance to statues of Buddha. Carbon 14 tests showed that the objects were made about...
...formal sort of man who wears a business suit in the laboratory, suffers a necktie in the warmest weather. But he gives himself away with his missionary zeal. To Chemist Libby, recruiting bright young newcomers to his calling is every bit as important as his own contributions. His radioactive carbon-14 dating technique brought him his well-deserved Nobel Prize; his five-year service on the Atomic Energy Commission was an invaluable bridge between the possibilities of science and the problems of politics. In Washington, Libby discovered that there are a lot of intelligent people who are not scientists." Says...