Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glenn Davis: "I never used to think about taking a daylight nap. Now I get sleepy every time I see a sofa." The two breaks that the 38-man football squad gets over the other 2,500 Cadets are: 1) a seat at the training table, where steaks and ice cream are more fre quent; 2) an occasional chance to leave barracks in the evening to visit the locker room and nurse a hurt or throw the bull...
...stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
...this argument the four books listed above are a current contribution. Each of them reveals something about Russia-the force which Henry Adams, one of the shrewdest of U.S. historians and political observers, once saw in the chilling terms of creeping "ice-cap" and "inertia." Part of mankind has long regarded this force as a prime political danger. Part of mankind has long regarded it as its great political hope. Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate...
...shines through thick steel castings as if they were made of ice. But it will do other, even more interesting things. A silver half-dollar, for instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
...airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...