Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacuum--ton one-billionths of an atmosphere--is one of the highest ever made in a a large container. Oil diffusion pumps produced it in the cyclotron's main chamber...
With the vacuum equipment out of the way, the main job now is building and attaching the oscillator to the cyclotron. As the protons spin around, the oscillator boosts their speed each time they pass. These successive boosts often result in velocities greater than 10,000 miles per second...
Coach Mikkola must fill one important position before the first meet. In the quarter mile relay veterans Harvey Thayer, Al Ruby, and Captain Dave Hamblett will fill three spots in the quartet, but who will be the fourth man is still a big question. Main contenders for this position are Dave Gilbert, Jerry Simpson, Bert Brown, and Bill Goldberg. In the two mile relay, Jim Downey, Dick Welch, George Williams, and either Ardon Albee or John Cogan should be on the starting line December...
Bean, the main speaker for the evening, will discuss the long-range political implications of the recent election, with a side explanation of where his rival pollsters went off the track in predicting a Republican sweep this year...
...main fault with the "Turk" was not in the performance or the opera itself. It is hardly more than a chamber opera, and in the cavernous wastelands of the Boston Opera House, the small mass of sound produced was pretty well lost. It was hard enough for most of the paying customers to hear the artists, let alone detect any difference subtler than that between a pianissimo and a fortissimo...