Word: heating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holup of favored Villanova, considered Landau's chief competition in the high hurdles, ran a sterling 14.6 qualifying heat to lead the qualifiers...
...voice smoky with longing. Her timing and enunciation are precise. Usually she plays the elegant if slightly shopworn lady, but sometimes she drops that role to launch into a gusty celebration of the simple trials of being a woman: "Like an oven that's crying for heat/ He treats me awful each time we meet/ But I must have that...
...best way to trigger its action is to combine a pad of material containing uranium with a layer of high-melting solder. When the neutrons in the reactor rise above a critical level, showing that an excursion has started, the uranium fissions at a rate that creates enough heat to melt the solder. Then high-pressure gas will shoot neutron-absorbing poison into the reactor. Even if other controls have failed, this last-ditch nuclear fire extinguisher will keep the reactor from exploding or melting itself into radioactive...
...capsule dropped in the ocean, as it might drop a returning spaceman. Then he will try again, with a capsule fired downward at 3,000 to 4,000 m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps back alive...
...varsity most was shutouts in both dashes, the 880, and the mile relay, all of which coach Bill McCurdy had relied on as Crimson point-gainers. Sandy Dodge had a bad day in the dashes, and Art Cahn was tired for the 880 after running a very fast qualifying heat against Yale's John Slowik, who won the main event...