Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal posts, cut down some of the boys as they dived to earth. One youth's left leg was almost severed above the knee. He was saved from bleeding to death when a quick-thinking teacher made a tourniquet from a rag and a chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted...
Dashing hysterically to the school, panicky mothers in pin curls and slacks retrieved their children, led them home through a 20-block area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living...
...together at Harvard, the three scientists shot an enormous current for a few millionths of a second through their copper ring. Inside the ring the magnetism jumped to the unheard-of level of 1,600,000 gauss.* Pressure rose above 1,000,000 lbs. per sq. in., and the metal churned and writhed as the magnetism clawed into it. Such pressure and violent motion may have some bearing on nuclear fusion, and this may be why Furth is now working at the famous hydrogen-bomb laboratory at Livermore, Calif...
...explosion, which makes a bang like a big gun, destroys costly apparatus, so Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned before...
...project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston & Albany Railroad. Huge pilings will be driven into the ground to form a foundation for the project's centerpiece: a $50 million skyscraper, 50 stories tall, 40% of which will be used by Prudential for its regional headquarters. Around its huge tower, the Pru will also build a complex of airy...