Word: emit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspirants-Nixon and Romney-are openly seeking the nomination, despite the fact that they still emit "Who, me?" disclaimers for public consumption. Both are concerned at having launched their campaigns so early in the game, since relentless exposure over a long period can be deadly. But circumstances forced their hands. In Romney's case, it was a tide of favorable publicity and felicitous polls in the aftermath of his 570,000-vote third-term victory last November. Nixon was prematurely jolted into action by Reagan's sudden rise as a potential challenger for the conservative support that...
...light-years in diameter. And a new Caltech study suggests that quasars have an immensely bright core which is only a few "light days" in diameter. Yet if the quasars are as far out in space as their red shifts seem to indicate, they must emit 100 times as much light as an entire galaxy in order to appear as bright and distinct as they...
With receivers as small and totable as a hip flask, one-way radio pagers are now a hot item. Some emit only a beep that tells the recipient to call his office from wherever he is. Others give out a beep-voice combination. Either way, the system is simple in concept: Party A wants to reach Party B, who is nowhere near a telephone. Party A calls a radio-paging center. There, an operator sends out an individually toned beep, or a voice instruction, to Party B, who is wearing a paging device. Party B goes to a telephone...
...CHINA by Emit Schulthess. 248 pages. Viking. $25. This opulent book of 165 splendid photographs, taken by Swiss-born Photojournalist Schulthess and supplemented by even-handed essays from Author Edgar Snow, German Journalist Harry Hamm and Professor Emil Egli, is about as close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...
French Physicist Alfred Kastler's prizewinning work, on the optical resonance of atoms, was published more recently-in 1950. It explained his technique for irradiating an atom to make it emit radiation of its own, thereby revealing the nature of its structure. Because Kastler, now 64, paved the way for the later development of the maser-which earned U.S. Physicist