Word: melt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never gets to touch...
...every half-hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something to say. "Why, honey," he told a girl who wanted to know about Tom Paine's Common Sense, "that was a pamphlet in favor of the American Revolution...
...sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
...Insurance Co. of Hartford's new office building. In place, the bas-relief will serve as a 110-ft.-long wall over the building's main entrance. It is an abstraction with overtones of cubism -an endless procession of angular, cloudy, faceless figures that seem to shift, melt and glide...
...throwing out the SEC suit, Judge Wilkin may have helped to melt some of the solid opposition to variable annuities in most states. Only Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia have so far licensed home-based companies to sell the policies. With the precedent of a court decision, state insurance commissioners may well regard the variable annuity with a kindlier eye. Meanwhile, the two victorious District of Columbia companies, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. and Equity Annuity Life Insurance Co., plan to step up their selling campaigns...