Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that hasn't occurred to me recently. We are the Before-Our-Time Generation." We grew up with a rush, many of us before we hit 20 And why not? Millions were overseas, som wounded and killers of fellow men before we ever had to shave . . . Upon returning horn with a chance of a free education, we combined that, many of us, with marriage an parenthood; and still in our very early 20s. Yes, we're a generation who can't remember when a bitter war wasn't raging somewhere Why, the first newspaper I recall...
...geologist for 32 years and a onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often...
...give off ions (electrified particles) when heated to high temperature. At one end of the lonophone's quartz tube is a small quartz cylinder with a coating that contains fine particles of platinum. When the platinum is heated electrically to about 1,000° C., it fills the horn-shaped cavity above it with a cloud of rapidly zigzagging ions. The ion cloud responds almost instantly to changes in the strength of a high-frequency electric field around the little quartz cylinder, and the cloud's expansion and contraction set up sound waves. When a current carrying music...
...work at full efficiency, the lonophone requires a large horn, but even the table model is a remarkable improvement on conventional loudspeakers. It is sensitive, Klein says, to sound waves up to 400,000 cycles per second. (The average human ear can hear only about 16,000 cycles, and the average home loudspeaker does not work well above...
...same regiment that was wiped out under Custer, at the Little Big Horn...