Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy to hold the time. The mail chutes choked up with letters, had to be taped closed. Slow-moving elevators forced Senators to overflow into freight lifts. Private conversations were being filtered into the corridors through louvered air ducts in the doors. Long-legged lawmakers cracked their kneecaps against low-slung desks. And the new subway to the Capitol lay dead-ended about 250 ft. short of its destination (cost to complete...
...most familiar particle accelerators are cyclotrons, synchrotrons, etc., which whirl ionized particles many times around a circular path, giving them more and more speed. But at the higher energies, the whirling particles are hard to control and give low beam intensity. Linear accelerators are relatively simple in principle, but tremendously complicated to engineer, and require much more space. Starting electrons at one end of a long, straight path, they push them toward the other end by a carefully timed series of microwave pulses, producing very high energies with the electrons concentrated in a high-intensity beam...
...plutonium is about the most perverse material yet known to man. As a metal it is preposterous; while being heated to its rather low melting point (1184° F.), it passes through six different crystalline forms, expanding and contracting as much as 8.9% of its volume. It warps and distorts itself, disrupting anything to which it is attached. Because of this, Argonne Lab has given up trying to use pure plutonium in reactors, is making fuel elements out of plutonium alloyed or combined with other materials...
...varsity track team has elected Patrick R. Liles '60, of Dunster House and Memphis, Tenn., captain for the 1959-60 season. Liles competed in the broad jump, low hurdles, and mile relay this spring...
...season's climax against the Eli yearlings Saturday, the Yardlings picked a poor time for their low point of the season. During the game the freshmen committed four very costly errors that let seven runs score. Yale took advantage of these gift runs and held fast behind pitcher Bob Carpenter to win, 13 to 6, over the Yardlings who were also not up to their usual hitting strength...