Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...
BROWSING through an antique shop off London's Bond Street a few years ago, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum Director James J. Rorimer came across a metal bust that caught his expert eye. Recalls Rorimer: "It was filthy with grime, tarnished, painted with a darkened varnish, and the face was covered with several layers of flaking paint." When he opened the bust's hinged miter. he saw that the inside was of carefully hammered silver. Concluded Rorimer: "There could be no doubt that here was an Italian 15th century reliquary bust...
...death rate from broken hips, one of their commonest accidental injuries, was appallingly high because of surgical shock, or infection, or other complications during long, bedridden convalescence. Now surgeons can safely undertake the operation to reduce the fracture in victims as old as 90. The surgeons use a metal nail to fix the bones in place; the use of antibiotics prevents infections; and patients are up and about before complications have a chance to develop...
...having the original six dubbed in five other languages (French, German, Spanish, Polish, Arabic). Whatever the language or the nationality, Cash aims his shows at one man with three children and a modest education, who lives in a little house just outside London and is employed as a sheet-metal worker for an automobile company. He is Cash's brother. Whenever a sequence becomes too specialized or complicated, Cash briskly cuts it, explaining: "My brother wouldn't understand that...
Another Bell breakthrough in 1948 was the discovery, after years of basic research into the structure of matter, that a solid metal such as germanium or silicon (earth's most abundant solid element) can be made to act like a vacuum tube, i.e., it will amplify an electric signal. Result: the flea-size transistor−and a king-size new industry. Thirty-five manufacturers have already turned out 7,000,000 transistors v. 1 billion vacuum tubes now in use in the U.S., are doubling output each year. Transistors will multiply the speed of future telephone exchanges...