Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because there was no local culture, not even the convenience of slaves, these blue-eyed Scots, Irish and English established a middle-class British society, mercantile, predominantly Protestant. The speech of Australia became a nasal offshoot of cockney, and at Christmastime Australians dutifully ate plum pudding in 100° heat. For England's "county" aristocracy, Australia substituted its own "squattocracy"-men who had carved out for themselves sheep or cattle stations the size of Maryland and sent their sons to Cambridge or Oxford. To its critics, it seemed a perfectly preserved specimen of 19th century British culture, like...
Smog Chaser. Also before the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Dr. David B. Hall of Los Alamos took down his scientific hair and discussed some of the jobs that may open for nuclear reactors in the foreseeable future. Reactors are very good, he said, at generating low-cost heat, and the time may come when the world needs to conserve its remaining liquid fuel to run land and air vehicles. Then reactors can take over the job of supplying process heat (e.g., for industrial use) and space heat (e.g., for homes), which account for half the energy consumed...
Bends & Bubbles. For the untrained or careless diver, Aqua-Lunging presents a host of dangers: swimming too long in cold water can subtly bleed off his body heat until he finds himself suddenly exhausted ; holding his breath during the last 30 ft. of ascent can rupture his lungs as they expand under the rapidly decreasing pressure; successive deep descents can cripple him with the old diver's disease of the bends unless he decompresses the nitrogen bubbles in his blood by lingering at graduated stages...
...suit deliberately admits water, but fits snugly enough to prevent it from circulating. After the diver's body warms this thin layer of water, the suit prevents heat loss to the surrounding depths. The "dry" suit is usually made of thin gum rubber, is in theory (but seldom in fact) watertight...
...Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and a good one) will never be called an important book, but it deals with important things-the changing seasons, the magical qualities of visiting uncles and spinster neighbors, the insatiable appetite boys have for berries picked in the noonday heat. Author Lee knows that his book has an almost archaic aspect. Not until the end do autos appear in the valley, and one uncle takes on the stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable about these childhood memoirs...