Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, the Greeks had no word for it: they neither understood nor named the body's system of glands and connecting channels through which colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for the fluid only. They called it lympha, after a fancied resemblance to clear spring water. But nothing about the lymphatic system was clear then, or for another 2,000 years. Only now, says Tulane University's Physiologist Hymen S. Mayerson in a report to the American College of Surgeons, are the workings of the lymphatic system beginning to be understood. The body...
...power. Dr. Kantrowitz likes to say that his creation is just like an ordinary rotary generator, but simpler. In one sense he is correct: a conventional generator has electrical conductors (copper wires) that are spun in a magnetic field by a steam turbine. Their motion causes a current to flow through them. In an MHD generator the conductor is a hot gas (plasma) that has been ionized by having electrons knocked off some of its atoms. When the plasma squirts rapidly between the poles of a powerful magnet, a current flows across its stream and is picked up by electrodes...
...these mechanical fossils is the antique ignition system. It has a circuit breaker with rapidly moving contact points that change the battery's direct current into a pulsating flow that the induction coil can raise to high voltage. This charge then goes to a distributor that feeds short pulses to the spark plugs at the proper time to ignite the mixture of gasoline and air in the cylinders...
...Even if one makes allowances for what was missing on Friday, Stravinsky's version sounded sadly disjointed in comparison with the original vocal settings if the madrigals. Stravinsky achieves coloring effects-alternating strings and horns in block chords in the fourth movement, for example-but loses the feeling of flow beneath his startling harmonic changes. To juxtapose distantly related harmonies is no longer surprising, and becomes marvelous only when the voices making up the harmonies each appear very orderly. Stravinsky loses that component orderliness by shifting the voices from one set of instruments to another, again and again...
...turnabout? Well, went the Washington line, it is not really a turnabout. President Eisenhower first promised the sub to the French four years ago (the offer ran into congressional opposition). Furthermore, the sale price of $63 million will help in a small way to stem the gold flow from the U.S., and Nautilus subs are, in any event, merely powered by nuclear engines and not rocket-bearing, as is the Polaris. Still, the sale suggested that the U.S. is beginning to come round to De Gaulle's view that France must be a nuclear power and as such must...