Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncertain whether or not the Essenes permitted marriage. The central cemetery seems to contain only male skeletons, but in smaller cemeteries adjoining it the remains of women and children have been found. It is possible that a secondary order of married Essenes grew up near the main community, or that the order relaxed its rule of celibacy at some time during its history (it is known from archaeological evidence that about 31 B.C., roughly coinciding with an earthquake, the Essenes left their desert community, did not return for more than 30 years...
...resent anybody, including Kier Nash, writing a poem which does not contain its own "key." Poems about Thomas Mann's creations should be confined to the margins of his books. Yet, Nash's poem is the most lyrical work I have read in the Advocate in a long time. Tricks like "mild feet" or "hair lit to lightning" grate on the mind's eye, but most of the words do their work well...
When the time came for the unveiling last October, Virgil Exner was not there; he was down with a serious heart attack. Last week he was at work on Chrysler's 1960 models, which will contain the company's next basic styling change. What will they look like? Says Exner: shorter and lower. "We feel that cars have gotten just about as long as they need to be in the foreseeable future, and with cars lower they can become shorter without losing the low, long look." As for public acceptance of the swoops and darts, grins Exner...
Fortunately, nature has provided a chemical element, boron, which can be forced with some difficulty to improve on carbon's performance. Boron has a high heat of combustion (25,000 B.T.U. per lb.), and it forms compounds that contain more energy-rich hydrogen than most hydrocarbons do. The heat of combustion of diborane (B2H6), for instance, is 31,000 B.T.U. per lb., almost twice as good as kerosene...
Boron compounds do not end the list of possible exotic fuels. Paintlike slurries of powdered aluminum or magnesium, suspended in some combustible liquid, contain a lot of energy. In the case of rocket motors, which do not depend on atmospheric oxygen, both the fuel and the oxidizer material with which the fuel combines can be varied. Nitric acid is popular because it is a convenient form of oxygen and yields additional energy when it decomposes. Liquid fluorine is theoretically the best oxidizer, but it is fantastically corrosive and hard to handle. Some material may be discovered that yields fluorine conveniently...