Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antiprotons were created last fall by the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Bevatron, at Berkeley, Calif., but they could be detected only indirectly by a complicated electronic method (TIME, Oct. 31). Scientists wanted to "see" them by one of the more direct methods that they use to make subatomic particles visible. So the Berkeley scientists shot antiprotons from their great machine into a stack of photographic films. Their hope was that they would find microscopic tracks in the films that could be identified as the work of an antiproton...
Astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania have another and less direct method for observing winds at high altitude. The twinkling of stars, which so annoys astronomers, is due to turbulence in the atmosphere. Therefore, the twinkling should yield information about the currents that stir up the turbulence, even when they cannot be measured directly in any other...
...Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep-going reorientation in the method and spirit of our mission is called for. Only Asians can carry the weight in witnessing for Christ to Asians. We cannot plant our church and our institutions in Asia and then take pride because they are ours...
...first glance, the Photon machine looke like a compact IBM-type computing machine. It has only three major components: a standard Underwood electric typewriter, a telephone relay system, and a photographing unit. Its basic difference from the conventional method of hot-metal type-setting are two. The keyboard of a typecaster is big and complex. Photon uses the keyboard of a standard electric typewriter. And secondly, the end product is different. The old machine casts individual lines of type. Photon, on the other hand, actually sets no type. It simply reproduces, on film, type in any style and size...
Food Preservation. Radiation may prove itself a cheap and convenient method to kill bugs in stored grain. Army Quartermaster tests show that radiation will also cut spoilage in onions and potatoes, preserve bread, chicken, pork and some vegetables without refrigeration, extend the refrigerated shelf life of beef and lamb as much as ten times. In five to 20 years food radiation will be a sizable industry...