Word: exoticisms
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The rebels here protest against the everydayness, the drab practicality and utterly unfashionable common sense of the middle-class existence that is the national norm. This battle at Harvard against the colorless certainties and dread gaucherie of the bourgeois, (that is to say, the hometown) is fought for romanticism, for...
Only lately have scholars accumulated enough facts to be able to settle down to a sober appraisal of the scrolls' significance. The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly contribute to the understanding of those foundations. As U.S. Old Testament Scholar Frank...
EXOTIC-FUEL DEAL will put Gulf Oil Corp. into new field of high-energy jet and missile fuels. Gulf is buying 25% of Gallery Chemical Co., developers of promising "HiCal" boron fuel (TIME, March 18), will start joint research and production program.
Last week a super-secret conference met at Dayton's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to discuss high-energy "exotic" fuels, the hottest subject in the air propulsion business. The conference issued no public report, but it is well known that all major engine and rocket-motor manufacturers are...
Boron compounds do not end the list of possible exotic fuels. Paintlike slurries of powdered aluminum or magnesium, suspended in some combustible liquid, contain a lot of energy. In the case of rocket motors, which do not depend on atmospheric oxygen, both the fuel and the oxidizer material with which...