Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruth's father was a frustrated violinist (reduced to giving lessons), but when she rebelled against this instrument at the age of three, pleading for the piano, he gave her what she wanted. The very next morning he woke her at six, trotted her without breakfast to the piano, and her ordeal began. All day long, the metronome clicking back and forth, he taught the tot to play scales in time. It was not easy. "Father never gave up. He knew exactly how to handle the situation. Every time I made a mistake, he leaned over and, very methodically...
...prophecy that she would be one of the world's greatest musicians has not been fulfilled. But her present highly skillful work shows that in spite of the pain the piano caused her as a child, Ruth Slenczynska has matured enough to turn it into an instrument of pleasure for herself and her listeners...
...Neumann's maturity and brilliance could cope with. In 1952, the machine was completed, and applied physicists in various companies began to improve upon the original until the Institute decided that it was no longer part of its purpose to maintain the old machine as merely a laboratory instrument. Thus, in the summer of this year, the computer was turned over to Princeton University. It had ceased to be an object of "advanced study...
...balloon-launched Air Force rocket, fired over Eniwetok as part of a research program called Project Far Side, burst into outer space, beyond the 580 miles of the Soviet satellite, beyond the 625-mile record set by the Army Jupiter, with preliminary instrument studies indicating the rocket may have soared 4,000 miles (distance from earth to moon: 238,857 miles...
Late in the afternoon, scientists at Britain's Windscale plant, the main British source of plutonium, saw danger signals on a temperature control instrument. A hurried second glance told them what had happened. One of the two nuclear reactors had been closed down all day; deep in the massive structure of graphite blocks, one or more canisters of uranium had grown red hot and burst open. Apparently the uranium, heated by its fierce radioactivity, was burning in an oldfashioned, chemical way by combining with oxygen in the air that is blown past to cool...