Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine is a gas turbine affair-adapted in principle from the turbojet airplane engine-which Chrysler has been working on for years (TIME, March 29, 1954). A compressor forces air into a chamber where it is heated and then mixed with fuel (see diagram). A single spark plug ignites the mixture, and the expanding hot gases drive two turbines. The first turbine turns the original air compressor, and the second turns the power shaft that connects to the rear wheels. The exhaust gases are recycled into a regenerator to heat the incoming...
Around the equator, air from the troposphere passes upward into the stratosphere, then whirls toward the poles. When it reaches the Arctic, it sinks and re-enters the troposphere (see diagram). If the sinking air carries radioactive particles with it, they are quickly whipped around the earth by fast low-level winds and are eventually deposited on the surface in rain or snow...
...technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating the formation of a barrier beach. For Maine, the diagram shows how glaciers form eskers, drumlins and kames...
...name triumphantly, over and over again he radioed, "I am eagle, I am eagle." Once he added for any and all listeners: "I wish you had it so good." As the earth twisted beneath him-22° with each orbit-putting him successively over new continents and nations (see diagram), he proudly transmitted appropriate messages: Master Sergeant James...
...kill quickly as a stroke or a heart attack-has no everyday English name. It is pulmonary embolism, in which the flow of used blood is blocked, nearly always by clots, in the pulmonary artery leading from the heart's lower right chamber to the lungs (see diagram). Medicine and surgery have been helpless to deal with severe cases of pulmonary embolism. Now a team of Houston doctors suggests that if victims can be operated upon promptly, a number may be saved with the aid of a heart-lung machine...