Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
Scientists are not sure what makes tin whiskers grow. They are slender crystals that seem to squirt out of the metal like toothpaste out of a tube. They grow fastest at 125° F., which is close to the temperature inside a home hi-fi set, but they grow well enough at average room temperature (70°), which is common in enclosed parts of spacecraft. Now a spacecraft with a faltering voice or an electronic brain that has become psychotic need not be given up for lost. Allowed a few days to grow, the little tin whiskers will make...
...popular half-form is the adaptation, half novel and half play. A novel has the time to grow imperceptibly, like a tree, acquiring added rings of meaning. A play is more like a duel or a trial. In a brief two hours it must draw blood or render a judgment...
...must be pretty smashing to be a 15-year-old English schoolgirl and your best friend asks you what you are going to do when you grow up apart from getting married and all that and you say: "Be a novelist...
...forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued to grow...