Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under him, the Press spoke for "Dev's" Fianna Fáil Party, and circulation climbed until today it is 199,000, only 4,000 behind the Irish Independent, the country's biggest daily. But from the start, Dev had one trouble with the paper. In the heat of Irish politics, the job of editor, which is virtually a lifetime job on other Irish papers, has been far from that on the Press. Latest casualty was Press Editor Bill Sweetman, who, after 15 years in the editor's hot seat, returned to the relative peace & quiet...
...Heat Barrier. Beyond the problems of design and control lies an even more serious obstacle. Some experts believe that heat will defeat all attempts of men to fly for long at twice the speed of sound. Rocket planes like the Skyrocket do not encounter the "heat barrier"; they do not fly long enough to heat up seriously. But the X3, expected to fly at high speed for a considerable period, is another matter. Its designers had to build into it resistance to the floods of heat caused by its own motion...
...problems involved were staggering. Aluminum alloys lose much of their strength at 300° F., so large parts of the X-3's skin, especially parts that get heat from the engines as well as from outside, are made of titanium. The cabin, which must be kept at a temperature where a man can sit, is cooled by a refrigerator powerful enough to air-condition an average movie theater. The refrigerator accounts for 10% of the empty weight of the X3, and absorbs 2,600 horsepower from its engines. Despite all this cooling, the windows of the cockpit (which...
Airman Bridgeman views the "heat barrier" calmly. He does not seem alarmed by the prospect of flying an airplane whose windows are too hot to touch. He is not optimistic, either, about the ultimate outcome. "The sound barrier," he says from experience, "wasn't too bad. It was sort of like jumping over a fence. But the heat barrier is like fighting your way into a thicket of thorns. The farther you get into it, the more thorns stick into...
Cannon & Coffee. His most important experiment: working with a cannon-boring machine, he established the equivalence of heat and work, demolishing the long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...