Word: liquidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these is the amplification of radio messages. If an ordinary amplifier is set for too great a gain, all it does is magnify the random noise caused by the thermal motions of atoms and electrons. At the extremely low temperature of liquid helium, thermal motions almost stop, so Dr. Strandberg figured that an amplifier that would work at such temperature might be efficient beyond dreams...
...most infuriating passage, he describe pragmatically the superiority of the American bathroom to the Gothic cathedral as a mental stimulus: "But the bathroom, too, shelters the spirit, it tranquillizes and reassures, in surroundings of a celestial Whiteness, where the pipes and the faucets gleam and the mirror makes another liquid surface, which will render you, shaved, rubbed and brushed, a nobler and more winning appearance... It encourages self-dependence and prepares one to face the world, fortified, firm on one's feet, serene and with a mind like a diamond." There are two possible reactions of disgust to this sort...
According to Bergaust, the Polaris will be a rather fat missile 40 ft.-50 ft. long and about 8 ft. in diameter. Its range will be more than 800 miles, and it will carry a nuclear warhead. Instead of liquid fuels, which the Navy considers too dangerous and undependable to use in a submarine, the Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above...
...lines described by Alvarez were photographs taken of a "bubble chamber" filled with liquid hydrogen in which high-speed particles made trails of tiny bubbles. When the chamber was bombarded by extremely powerful particles from the Berkeley bevatron, some of the tracks looked as if they were made by mu mesons, which are knocked out of the hearts of smashed atoms. A few of these tracks were peculiar; they had gaps in them that puzzled the scientists...
Slow Local. However dreary his subject matter, Hopper invariably bathes it in pure, liquid-seeming light. He is as reticent in applying paint to canvas as the abstract expressionists are bold, giving his pictures a single overall surface, as if they were seen through a picture window. By suppressing all details that would not be noticed in a passing glance, and arranging his compositions to suggest that the scene extends far beyond the frame, he puts his picture window in motion. Seeing a Hopper exhibition is like floating through people's backyards on a slow local, in a state...