Word: magnetic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labyrinth is about half as big as a desk top and is fitted with aluminum partitions which can be shifted around among 40 different slots. Theseus himself has only a mouse-shaped wooden body, three small wheels and whiskers of copper wire. Inside him is nothing but a bar-magnet. His brains are outside him, under the floor of the labyrinth. They are a complicated array of relays...
...Actually, what troubles Matejka is that Kral is not at all typical: he belongs to no party, spouts no doctrine, and (something that also troubles the U.S. consulate) includes men of all beliefs among his friends. The hero of Missing never appears in its pages. But, like an invisible magnet, Paul Kral draws its characters into his orbit, strengthening their humanity by his example of personal goodness...
...just after the Civil War, had swelled to a record crest during World War II and the postwar boom. "Nonwhite" population in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania rose by 558,135. In industrial Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, non-whites increased by 599,417. And in 1940-1950, a new magnet had appeared-California, where non-white population swelled by 328,376 in the decade...
...magnet itself weighs 700 tons. It was the Railroad that actually determined the maximum size this cyclotron could be. The parts for anything bigger than the Nuclear Laboratory has already would never have made the clearances along the line from Home-stead, Pennsylvania, where the machine was built, to Boston. Once the parts were in Cambridge, the University had to send all the way to California for experts to assemble and install them. the cost of the cyclotron and its installation amounted to about $1,000,000, which was paid for by the U.S. Navy. The Navy also pays...
...large magnetic field--95 inches--to hold the particles in circular paths. The magnet in Harvard's cycltron has power enough to yank hammers out of people's hands...