Word: hydrogen
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...hydrogen-powered silver Prius soon came to fill the president’s parking space. (Bok long ago traded in the red Volkswagen Beetle, his chariot of choice throughout his first presidency...
Over the course of four years, Harvard students responded to the Cold War as tensions flared inside and outside Harvard Yard. Senator Joseph McCarthy targets Harvard University in his quest to weed out alleged communists in America. The United States develops the hydrogen bomb, and the first color television is sold. For the Class of 1957, these events were the background to their time at Harvard...
...United States tests the Hydrogen Bomb. Students and professors hold debates on atomic warfare. Harvard is declared a “secondary target” by Cambridge Civil Defense Director Edmund H. Burke. It is determined that in the event of nuclear war, Harvard would have to be evacuated immediately...
...launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among the most celebrated: recovering a lost hydrogen bomb in the 1960s and leading explorer Robert Ballard to the remains of the Titanic in nearly 13,000 ft. of water, off Newfoundland, in 1986. Froehlich...
...House courtyard for the first time at 2 p.m. before their May 6 performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” and sound the first notes only one hour later. In place of the usual firing of cannons, the group opts for exploding hydrogen balloons, and kazoos fill in for any missing instruments. Lowell House’s famous Russian bells also figure prominently in the piece. Channing Yu ’93, a Lowell House tutor, will conduct the performance, as he has done for the last several years. Before that, Yu played...