Word: extract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms of Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director to exploit the scenes of misunderstanding do most to make the movie so uncomfortable...
...reactor will be of novel design, using heavy water as the moderator to slow down its neutrons, and liquid sodium as the coolant to extract the heat of the reaction. This combination is extremely efficient, but engineers have always shied away from it because water and liquid sodium react explosively when they come in contact. Only recently were methods devised to keep them safely apart...
From Sow Ovaries. The chief drawback now is the scarcity of the raw material. There is no way of extracting relaxin from pocket gophers, and it is present in some bigger animals in only negligible quantities. But for some reason that researchers (including Dr. Hisaw, now at Harvard) have not fathomed, the ovaries of the pregnant sow are the best source. Fortunately some sows are pregnant when slaughtered,* and from 110,000 lbs. of sow ovaries a year the laboratories extract 100 ounces of Releasin. This is enough for seven injections for each of 18,000 patients-fewer than...
...almost out of the question with uranium reactors, but the "magnetic bottle" of the thermonuclear reactor is electrical to start with. "If we shall have learned," said Teller, "how to confine a plasma of considerable pressure by a magnetic field, then it should not be too difficult to extract energy from the plasma by varying the magnetic field...
...were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled for an anthropological collection of "subhumans"). Whereas the Russians' prime concern seemed to be confessions of self-guilt, the Germans tortured mainly to extract admissions of others' guilt. When justice finally caught up with an MVD man he usually went stoically to his death, but at Nürnberg many Gestapomen wept and whimpered...