Search Details

Word: mex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...quiet, warehouselike building at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, N. Mex. are six racks of shelves, each 28 ft. long, 3 ft. wide and 20 ft. high. Each rack has seven shelves; on each shelf are 48 grey metal boxes; and the whole thing looks as passive as a shoe factory's inventory. Actually, it is the first half of the Zeus capacitor, one of the world's most violent bits of equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sudden Zeus | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Vegas, N. Mex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Hoping to prove to Congress and the budgetmakers that it is possible to devise a defense against missiles, the Army disclosed that one of its operational Hawk antiaircraft missiles knocked down a supersonic Honest John over White Sands, N. Mex. last month. In the first known kill of a ballistic missile, the two birds collided 1½ miles up at a combined speed of 2,000 m.p.h. Though a far cry from the Army's goal of perfecting a nuclear-tipped Nike-Zeus missile system capable of intercepting 16,000 m.p.h. ICBMs at 100-mile altitudes, the Hawk tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neither Lapped nor Gapped | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Las Cruces, N. Mex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | Next