Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANONYMITY encourages a student to throw a bottle out a high window without concern for hurting someone or fear of being spotted among a huge grid of windows. It is a feeling that leaves a greater sense of detachment from the administration. As an emotional act, sitting-in the president's office brought the argument of the demonstrators into an understandable reality. Before, their debate was not so much arrogant as unknown...
Goodwin, who has "good hands, good speed, and good potential," according to head football coach John Yovicsin, had a promising grid career cut short late in his freshman year when he broke an ankle against Yale...
...work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar sent electric current through...
...linear accelerator, a large cobalt-60 source, or a generator that puts out 2,000,000 electron volts. To protect the patient from radiation sickness and to spare normal tissue, healthy parts of his body must be shielded. At Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Nobler, an X ray with a grid background is made of the body area involved. On this X ray the radiologists mark the vital organs, such as lungs, which must be shielded. A template is made, and then engineers cut out lead shields 21 inches thick to this pattern. The shields, placed in the head...
Core Samples. SAC Major General Richard Hunziker's team-now grown to some 400 men-is using surveyors' transits to mark off a grid pattern around the crash site. As each piece of wreckage is found, it is plotted on the grid to establish the debris pattern that resulted from the crash, and detonation of the conventional explosives in each bomb. The collected debris will be shipped to the U.S. .in sealed containers for burial. The freight will be substantial. "Every piece of debris we've found so far is contaminated," reports Hunziker...