Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk turned to molybdenum, which is not the hardest metal known to man but has the advantage of not even beginning to melt at temperatures up to 4,700°F. Eventually the atom experts decided to put their drilling theories to a test; they constructed a 2-in. cylindrical drill bit of molybdenum, and to their surprise their very first demonstration was a success. With a 5-kw. generator, they heated the face of the bit to 2,190°F, then forced it down against a specimen of hard basalt rock. Like a hot pick thrusting through...
...problems for a while, five nuclear scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory were discussing the difficulties of Project Mohole, the National Science Foundation's plan to bore through six miles of the earth's crust northeast of Hawaii. What kind of drill would stand...
Beberman says: "The old system was deadly-drill, drill, drill. What I'd like to do is take all these people who say, 'Let's have new math, let's get it into the schools,' and shake them up and say, 'First let's make sure the teachers who are going to teach it know what's going on.'" Badly taught, new math plants confused concepts and creates individuals who cannot even keep their check stubs figured, and Beberman never intended that. "The key thing is computation," he says...
...Force program involves a six-week encampment between the sophomore and junior years and a full course each year during the last two years of college. Drill and related activities are no longer required during the academic year. Lt. Col. Edward M. Lyman, professor of Air Science, stressed yesterday that the new program "will not interfere with other student activities and obligations...
However, activities such as the drill team and millitary balls are expected to remain available on an option basis...