Word: emit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that works by using infra-red rays has been put on the market by Cleveland's Perfection Industries, Inc. The portable Infra-Rayhead Heater burns gas through tiny holes in ceramic plates, quickly developing surface temperatures of 1,400° to 1,600° F., which in turn emit infra-red rays that warm nearby objects without heating the intervening air. Its operation is inexpensive; a 100-lb. tank of liquefied petroleum gas provides 150 hours of heating. Possible uses: protecting crops from frost, heating large factories. Price: $90 for small size...
...prevailing gloom is laced with latent excitement, for he fills his brush strokes with nervous energy and uses crude but dramatic color schemes involving generous clouds of black and ultramarine which emit red and white flashes. Composition is perhaps his strong point: like most of his canvases. Hultberg's Airport (see cut) looks elaborate as a house of cards, yet solid as a concrete runway...
...coal country, Palance (né Palahnuik) gave terrifying performances in Shane and Sudden Fear, has since become the hottest heavy in Hollywood. His face alone, as thin and cruel as a rust-pitted spade, is enough to-frighten a strong man; and to make matters worse, he seems to emit hostile energy, like something left overnight in a plutonium pile...
...method developed by Purcell and his group here will enable scientists to obtain new information on the structure of atomic nuclei, by measuring the very weak radio electromagnetic waves emit- ted by spinning sub atomic particles...
Unknown Lights. Even before this turn-of-the-century flurry, says Menzel, flying saucers were reported. In 1893, the British warship Caroline saw mysterious lights just south of Korea. They "flew" in a long line, sometimes changing their formation. Through a glass they appeared "to emit a thin smoke." On reaching Kobe, the officers of the Caroline learned that these "Unknown Lights of Japan" had been observed by fishermen and were even described in Japanese schoolbooks...