Word: heat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class's "lack of warmth," wrote Wolfe in Of Time and the River, "the absence of inner radial heat which, not being fundamental in the structure of their lives, had never been wanted, filled [me] with a horror and impotent fury...
...sauna, rocks are heated on a special Finnish stove, and water is poured over them at intervals, causing an instantaneous release of "dry" heat, according to club president Peter A. A. Berle, '58. Purists beat one another with birch twigs, and finish by racing from the 180* sauna into a snowbank. Berle called the sauna "very relaxing...
Under a special arrangement, British and U.S. scientists are exchanging information on their fusion research. So far as is publicly known, both are working on similar lines, and so are the Russians. The basic problem in controlled fusion is to heat the material, usually deuterium, so hot that its nuclei will combine. This temperature is something like 100 million degrees C., and it must be held for an appreciable fraction of a second while the reaction takes place. Since all known materials turn into vapor at a few thousand degrees, the hot deuterium cannot be contained in any ordinary pressure...
Bill Thompson continued his consistent scoring, placing fifth, while French Anderson and Mac Brown finished in a dead heat, to provide the varsity with its displacement points...
...meters (7.9 to 9.5 ft.) long. When the carrier rocket was fired, the rods were folded back against the sphere, but swung outward on swivels when the satellite reached its orbit. The sphere is filled with nitrogen gas, presumably to help it get rid of the heat developed by the electrical equipment. If the satellite is punctured by a meteor, the gas pressure will fall at a rate that could tell the size of the meteor hole...