Word: emit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even surrounded by excessive babbling and posturing, the moments of genuine, unvarnished feeling have a lucidity that carries them effortlessly out of the mess. (I knew Herschel's gentle rhapsody on his life's passion, trolley cars, was important because it made me cry.) All those piled-up absurdities emit enough shocks of recognition to power a theaterful of electric chairs...
...typical stand-up booth is about three feet square and lined with reflectors and Westinghouse lamps of varying lengths that look like fluorescent lights but emit an average total of 560 watts of long-and medium-frequency ultraviolet rays. Unlike the infra-red sun lamps used at home, these lights give off very little heat. Doctors have long used them to treat serious skin conditions; the franchisers have merely put them in tanning booths. One minute under the lamps is said to equal an hour in the summer sun; sometimes ten visits are needed before the "sun worshiper" starts sporting...
...million cogeneration plant, designed to supply energy to 13 Medical Area institutions--including Harvard's three medical schools and its affiliated hospitals--has been the subject of intense community controversy because of the allegedly dangerous levels of nitrous oxides it would emit...
Dense, dark and dusty hodgepodges of galactic gas and dust where, quite literally, there is nothing to see were examined by means of the invisible radiation they emit. Radio and infrared techniques now enable us to "listen" to huge interstellar clouds slowly contracting to form stars. Thus, we are now learning a great deal about the embryonic stages of stars, a subject about which the oldest science--astronomy--had been experimentally ignorant until the dawn of the 1970s...
...almost unimaginably powerful. Such a regions not really an object, as much as a hole--a spatial domain from which neither visible nor invisible radiation can escape. It seems that the guts of black holes are unexplorable. But matter falling into such weird regions can, and apparently does, emit radiation just before being swallowed, perhaps forever...