Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freestyle, the feature event of any swimming meet, the man to beat was Jeff Farrell, 23, a weight-lifting Navy lieutenant who had won the 220 in the record time of 2:00.2. In a trial heat, Farrell tied the listed record of 48.9. But 16-year-old Steve Clark of Los Angeles qualified in 48.8. Suitably impressed, Farrell hit his tumble turns in the finals like an acrobat, won in the record time of 48.2 (Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller, which...
Some scientists suspect that the ever-increasing amount of fossil fuel that is burned may be increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They fear that the added CO-will have a "greenhouse effect," trapping solar heat at the earth's surface and raising its temperature. The result may be unpleasant changes of climate, including deserts in many places that are now fertile, and a disastrous rise of sea level because of melting icecaps. A cure might be a world agreement to use nuclear reactors wherever possible. They excrete...
...good use right now of a monster reactor. Over Los Angeles a layer of warm air (an inversion) hangs for long periods and traps beneath it the city's notorious smog. Dr. Hall believes that a reactor, operating at comparatively low temperature but generating 100 million kilowatts of heat, could punch a hole in the inversion and clear L.A. of smog...
PORTABLE ATOMIC REACTOR, lightest of its kind, will be installed by U.S. Army in Greenland. Weighing 310 tons, unit will produce heat and lights for 100-man base, run for a year on one planeload of uranium...
...Because of the heat, P. & O. put VIPs in cabins on the relatively cool port side on the journey to the Orient, on the starboasd side on the way home. P. & O. officials soon shortened "port out, starboard home" to "posh." used the word to describe their luxury facilities...