Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insisting that there is little or no lunar dust: "There was never any basis for believing it anyway, but the idea seemed to fascinate people in the same way as flying saucers." The surface of the Ocean of Storms, Kuiper said, seemed to have been formed by lava flow during volcanic activity billions of years ago. "It must be nasty stuff to walk on," he said, "brittle, sharp and full of little holes." The first lunar explorers, he feels sure, will have to be equipped with some form of snowshoe to maneuver successfully...
...executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
...imaginative answer. But for the East, at least, there is not yet a need for such expensive measures. The water is here. New York, with its Hudson River, is perhaps the modern-day embodiment of "water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink." Billions of gallons flow daily to the sea alongside the city, none of which can be used because of pollution. There is no law compelling industry to reveal how much or what kinds of wastes they dump into our streams. There is nothing in America to compare with the progressive Ruhrverband in Germany where the industrial...
...used for testing the sealing of caverns that many nations use to store natural gas. In addition, off-peak-hour electricity is already used to pump water up into a reservoir above the level of a water-driven turbine. During hours of peak demand, the water is released to flow down against the blades of the turbine, which drives an electric generator...
Author Auchincloss traverses this somewhat lurid ground with his customary cool style. A writer annealed by the disciplines of the law, which he still practices in Manhattan, he is incapable of setting an uncertain, unseemly or ungraceful foot. His narrative, his paragraphs and his sentences flow with smooth inevitability...