Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronic instrument-landing methods are already in practical use. One, ILS (InstrumentLanding System), projects into the sky a narrow beam of high-frequency radio waves. Slanting at a gentle angle, the beam forms a "glide path" which an airplane equipped with the proper instruments can follow down through the fog...
...rays of the Illinois betatron are too powerful to use in treating cancer or for photographing, say, the innards of battleships. Instead of merely passing through matter, they stir up showers of high-speed electrons which fog a photographic plate. The principal purpose of the Illinois betatron will be to produce copious supplies of mesons, the particles which are thought to be connected with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together. Powerful X rays knock mesons out of the nuclei. Said Professor Donald William Kerst, developer of the betatron and builder of the Illinois machine: "We are in business...
...varsity has a better than even chance of getting more than 20 points. The relays, the dive, and the breaststroke are out of its reach, but Joe Fox may retain his undefeated standing in the 50-yard freestyle. Depending on who swims for Eli Coach Bob Kiphuth, Captain Fog may take second or even first...
...character's sound common sense appears on the next-to-last page: "Rachel has been trying to get me to stop writing. But I have some more to put down. Is this the second day? The third day? I have been writing steadily. There is a kind of fog at the edges of my field of vision . . ." Author Hersey would have been well-advised to get out from behind befogged Noach's thick-lensed spectacles long before, to show his readers Warsaw seen through his own clear eyes...
...minor blaze in the incinerator chutes of the J and J entries of Eliot Houses attracted three engines, two hook and ladder crews, one rescue unit, and one fog truck from the Cambridge Fire Department at approximately 8:35 p.m. last night...