Word: fahrenheit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades played the role of society paper for expatriates, subject to Bennett's iron whim (without giving a reason, he ordered a letter from an "old Philadelphia lady," inquiring how to convert centigrade readings to Fahrenheit,* reprinted daily for 18 years...
...Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird, and you say the discovery of nothin' is a world-shaking event." In dealing with modern computers, Baird must include a quick explanation of the binary system.* He works his way into algebra with the equation T =C/4 + 37-the outside Fahrenheit temperature equals the number of times a cricket chirps in a quarter of a minute plus 37. After algebra come geometry, trigonometry, and the theory of probability that was discovered when Gambler Chevalier de Meré asked Pascal to figure out his chances of winning a dice game when interrupted...
...monoxide, the Navy's scientists think they can keep the temperature of the skin below 140° F. The sensitive instruments inside will be comfortable at about 120° F. When the satellite passes into the shadow of the earth, its temperature will drop suddenly to below zero Fahrenheit, but since it will be inhabited only by frostproof instruments, the Navymen do not care how cold it gets...
...Long View. In New Orleans, after her 17-year-old son, Francis Jr., and Thomas Lee, 18. were booked for disturbing the peace when cops found them trying to cure their ennui by sitting back to back and blindfolded in the middle of U.S. Rt. 90, Mrs. Francis Fahrenheit huffed: "Trouble with people is they forget they were kids...
...them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher, who substitutes in a poor county for a graduate veterinarian, Joe took the steer's temperature, found it four degrees above the normal of 101° Fahrenheit. He and the teacher purged the calf with laxative, hypoed it with penicillin, and in a few days it was back with the other young feeders...