Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...synthesis." R.P.I, chemists have taken nitrogen dioxide gas (NO2) and ionized it by squirting it against an electrically charged metal plate at one end of a vacuum tube. As soon as the gas molecules pick up electric charges, they respond to electrical forces and are whisked through a charged grid at a predetermined speed. After traveling a short distance, they hit molecules of vaporized benzene (C6H6) and stick to them, forming nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2). The hydrogen atoms left out of the combination form gaseous hydrogen...
Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...talked about a new Trans-Canada highway and a national power grid, side issues kept claiming the headlines: a feud between Diefenbaker and the press over the head count at his rallies, a tongue-lashing to a reporter who described a lackluster rally as a burst "Diefenbubble," attacks on the Gallup polls that showed the Liberals ahead. "What can they tell from a sampling of 1,700?" asked Diefenbaker. "I've been all across this great country, and I know what Canadians are thinking...
Football coach John Yovicsin was given the major "H" last Fall after gaining Harvard's first Ivy grid crown since 1919. Other coaches holding the award include hockey veteran Cooney Weiland (whose team won the Ivy this year), highly successful track coach Bill McCurdy (whose squad took the indoor heps title last winter), and Jack Barnaby, producer of perenially strong teams in tennis and squash for 20 years...
...will save the Government about $27 million. Udall also hopes that it will help to "bank the fires" of the whole rancorous power struggle, encourage private utilities to come to the support of his long-range plan for a hookup of private and public sources into a nationwide power grid...