Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accelerator, electrons whirl around on a constant orbit of 236-foot diameter between a series of 48 strong-focusing magnets. The circular tunnel which encloses it will have a powerhouse in the middle to supply the energy for the magnets. The accelerator tunnel and the powerhouse will be connected by four radial tunnels...
Harvard's facilities for nuclear research date back quite a while. Before the Second World War, the University owned a small, constant frequency cyclotron ("the only kind available at that time," says William M. Preston, director of the current cyclotron laboratory). During wartime, however, this machine was appropriated by the government and taken out to Los Alamos for use in the experiments that led to the atomic bomb...
...French out of West Africa. As head of the powerful (700,000 members) Union Générale des Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire, he ruthlessly slashed his way to power, often quieted his opponents by the simple expedient of burning down their houses. Though he was a constant troublemaker, French officials grudgingly admired him as the brightest of West Africa's rising young black men. Furthermore, since Guinea sends 67% of its exports to France, and French capital has been pouring into the territory's industries and bauxite mines, Paris never dreamed that Touré would...
...adopted, partly because of plebiscitarian memories, partly because of the fundamental nature of France's divisions. Except if he resorted to dictatorial manipulations, a popularly elected French president would be likely to represent no more than a small fraction of the electorate, and his authority would be open to constant challenge. A presidential system works effectively only if the great bulk of the electorate accepts the "rules of the game." This is not the case of modern France...
...Stade stated that the class as a whole "did not do as well as I had hoped" and that the facts were "baffling." He added that the proportion of freshmen who make the Dean's List had remained constant in the past...