Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fields and Friedman interested British Chemist John Milsted, who wangled some time on the Stockholm cyclotron, the only one in operation capable of projecting a sufficiently intense beam of carbon ions. Milsted also undertook the tricky job of making curium into a thin film, and sandwiching it between aluminum foil to form a suitable target. The apparatus was arranged so that any atoms of element 102 formed would be knocked out of the target and would stick to a "catcher foil," a bit of plastic film...
...play, in a lively new English translation by Germaine and Marston Balch, bears resemblance to Moliere's classic Imaginary Invalid in that Romains, like Moliere, uses medicine as a foil to pierce the frailties of human nature and lay bare the mechanisms which dominate the bourgeois mind...
Although he did not fence at Harvard, Breed, by the age of 35, had become one of the greatest foil and epee men in the country. In 1911, at 35, he won the national championship in both these divisions...
...brother-in-law into a fortune estimated at $215 million. At Rio Gallegos Prison, Antonio allied himself with four fellow prisoners, all well known Perónista politicos. Rumors of their plotting reached Buenos Aires, and an "absolutely trustworthy" assistant warden was assigned specifically to foil any escape. His salary for this task: $86 a month. One midnight last week, while other penitentiary officials made merry at a local fiesta, the special warden unlocked the prison doors and escorted Antonio & Co. to a waiting yellow Ford station wagon. Soon they were sipping tea at Punta Arenas, Chile. "There are ways...
Iceless Icebox. For shipping freshly killed poultry and other perishable goods at low cost, an iceless icebox has been developed by Aluminum Co. of America and Stone Container Corp. The carton uses reflecting aluminum foil on the outside to keep products cool in shipment, no matter how hot it gets inside trucks or trains. It is big enough to hold twelve chickens or 50 lbs. of other goods, will keep them at 45° to 48° for eleven hours or longer in temperatures as high...