Word: disks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shape and pulls off large amounts of gases. As the particles of gas spiral inward, or biting the black hole in ever tighter circles before entering the event horizon, they collide, compress and heat up. Temperatures within this so-called accretion disk of gases surrounding the black hole reach 10 million degrees C, sending streams of intense X rays into space...
...coronograph is designed to create an artificial solar eclipse, thereby permitting observation of the ultraviolet rays of the corona, the portion of the sun's atmosphere which extends well beyond the visible disk...
...Peter Carl Goldmark, 71, Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development...
...tally resulted from a two on one break with teammate Ross Brownridge. Harvard's Gene Purdy drilled a slap shot wide of the mark that rebounded to center ice. Sophomore defenseman Jack Hughes pivoted to gain control of the loose puck as Brownridge and O'Brien swarmed on the disk. Brownridge's initial shot was stopped by goalie Hynes before O'Brien, a sophomore, found the open...
...when he was severely tested late in the third stanza. With one minute and a half remaining in regulation time, a Harvard defensive lapse left Dartmouth's Murphy standing alone in front of the Crimson goal with the puck on his stick. Murphy deked, Hynes sprawled and smothered the disk. One minute later, the sophomore goaltender from Chatham repelled a flurry of Dartmouth shots from close range to put the contest into overtime...