Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research. Physicist William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
...forces with the State University of Iowa's Neurosurgeon Russell Meyers, who had long been convinced that the way to treat Parkinsonism was by destroying nerve bundles in two tiny parts of the brain (one on each side) called the ansa lenticularis. But he found conventional surgery too crude and damaging: it meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than any scalpel, worked with Fry in designing...
...Propulsion is devoted to hypervelocity flight-the perilous maneuvers of futuristic vehicles flying at 10,000 m.p.h. and more in the thin, high fringe of the atmosphere. In the eyes of out-front rocket men, the ballistic missiles that dominate today's military dreams are pretty crude jobs, outmoded even before they are built. Since they follow elliptical courses through space, they must climb more than 1,000 miles to reach a respectable horizontal range. The climb costs vast amounts of fuel, making the missiles expensive and unwieldy. The curve of re-entry is simple and predictable...
...will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict law, e.g., Roman law, composed of a set of completely rigid rules, 2) equity and natural law, insisting on reason and morality over mere rules, 3) maturity of law, based on equality...
...legislators and municipal officials. "We ask the candidates to be cautious in their pledges," said the President. "Whoever promises a paradise for indolents will be lying, and if he should win, the country will be in danger. Let citizens beware of miracles and medicine men, and turn toward the crude language of truth...