Word: gaslamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assure themselves of reactor fuel, the British are exploring the potential of thorium, an abundant metal once used in gaslamp mantles, as a replacement for uranium, which Britain must get at high cost from the U.S. While its atom cannot split like uranium, thorium can be converted by nuclear bombardment into fissionable U-233. In a breeder reactor seeded with plutonium or U-235, thorium could efficiently produce new fuel with compound interest. Moreover, the British announced, they are already operating a small, experimental "one-for-one" breeder reactor that produces one new neutron fuel for every neutron it consumes...
...innovations started fewer quarrels among old Wagnerites. Produced this time by younger brother Wolfgang, 34, who heretofore has concentrated on the business side of Bayreuth, the new Lohengrin stressed simple sets and alternate lighting effects of dazzle and darkness (Richard Wagner himself was limited to gaslamp effects). The new Bayreuth also dispensed with helmets and beards, soft-pedaled grand operatic gesticulation, and permitted cast and producers to take mundane curtain calls when it was all over...
Manhattan's Public School 19 was a splendid new building, sporting the very latest gaslamp fixtures, when Abraham Lincoln was campaigning in the neighborhood in 1860. Although its gaslights have long since been replaced, P.S. 19 still stands, somewhat the worse for nearly a century of students' wear & tear. Alongside a five-story addition built 61 years ago, the antique landmark is jammed by 1,009 kindergarten - through -sixth -grade pupils. The children crowd through its dingy, narrow halls, must sometimes go down five flights of stairs to reach the toilets, which are all in the basement...