Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applies not only to copper wires (as in conventional generators), but to gases, which become conductors when they are made so hot that some of their atoms separate (ionize) into electrically charged particles. If forced through a magnetic field, a stream of ionized gas causes an electrical current to flow across it. This principle has been known for years, and many efforts have been made to apply it practically, but the trick is not easy. The gas must be so hot (at least 4,000° F.) that it destroys many structural materials. Another problem is the poor conductivity...
...Velvet Glove. In any Cabinet under any President, the Secretary of the Treasury wields great power and carries grave responsibilities. He oversees the vast, intricate flow and ebb of the billions of dollars that the U.S. Government takes in and pays out. He is charged with managing the $290 billion national debt, a task in which small errors can be costly. But Robert Anderson's power and influence extend far beyond the statutory scope of his office, broad as that is. By force of mind and personality, Anderson molds politics that reach into every niche of the U.S. Government...
Nevertheless, the prospect of a faster flow of steel was causing steel-short manufacturing plants to revise their production schedules. Ford Motor Co.. which ha been running most of its 17 assembly plants on a four-day basis, will step up to five-day operations this week without fear of exhausting its stockpile. General Motors, which is altogether shut down made plans to start recalling workers within two weeks, hoped to be back in limited production in three weeks...
...Questions. Behind the experts that devised PERT lies 45 years of Booz, Allen & Hamilton experience in counseling more than 2,000 U.S. firms in management problems-getting the right outside man to become president of a slipping company, improving the flow of executive information, revising an outdated product line, amicably easing out executive deadwood. The firm was founded by the late Edwin Booz, a Reading (Pa.) ironmonger's son who studied economics and applied psychology at Northwestern University while serving as an Evanston night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies...
...sentence of his article, "The Birth of a Classic." A prefatory note explained that SR's poetry editor was saluting the work "in the deep conviction that it is not only an intrinsically great play but that it sets the model from which great poetic drama may hope to flow in our times." And, indeed, Ciardi contended that "MacLeish's great technical achievement is in his forging of a true poetic stage line for our times." Dismissing Eliot, Auden, Fry, and lesser ilk as failures in this respect, he pointed out that "until now, no one since Shakespeare has found...