Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prized wild ideas: isolation of tritium (used in thermonuclear weapons) and, with a graduate student, the discovery of helium 3 (1939); the universally used radar-operated Ground-Controlled Approach System for blind-flying aircraft (1942); a method of producing nuclear reaction without the presence of uranium or million-degree heat (1956). Born in San Francisco, the son of onetime Teacher and Mayo Clinic Physician (and now medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite professor, from chemistry to physics, took his Ph.D. in 1936. In the early years of World...
...Mexico James Stokes told of an egg-shaped U.F.O. that sped overhead leaving "a kind of heat wave like radiation from a giant sun lamp." ¶ In Chicago, two cops and a fireman chased a ball of light in a squad...
Most people think of fuel as something that gives off heat when the carbon in it combines with oxygen from the air. Chemists have wider horizons. A fuel means any combination of substances that reacts chemically with a release of energy. The ingredient that "burns" may be a metal or a compound containing a metal. The "oxydizer" may be oxygen-rich, or it may have no oxygen at all. The test is the yield of propulsive energy, which scientists measure as "specific impulse...
...goes without saying that the incident was regrettable, but those who raise strident demands for hasty and drastic punitive action tend only to compound the wrongdoing. It is all too easy, in the heat of outrage, to lose sight of the basic principles of justice...
Happily, Composer Aden's score, here modestly intricate, there suddenly lyrical, has more individual appeal and island charm than routine tropical heat. The entertaining lyrics in Jamaica are never once belted out, nor are the tunes whistled afterwards in the lobby. A show so lightly strummed, so insouciantly strutted, so frilled and beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger...