Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even of Dudley House does succeed in attracting a hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley...
...hand, and headed for his classroom. For 50 minutes Van Allen lectured to Iowa undergraduates on the theory of transformers, then quipped: "All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory...
...addition, all three of the armed forces will need a highly trained core of "electronics tacticians" to operate the missile fleet, MacIntyre noted. This core--to be composed of career men, rather than draftees--will enable the Defense Department to employ less manpower than it does at present...
Last week the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory announced a major step toward direct conversion: an experimental "plasma thermocouple" no bigger than a can of frozen orange juice. Placed inside the core of a research reactor, the device produced 40 watts of electricity -enough to light a household light bulb...
...there was also the hard-core, the part of the folk song crowd which really believes that if you're gonna split atoms, well, you can't split ranks. They knew most of the words. They sat on the floor. One caried a copy of No More War. There were too few of them...