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Word: nonuniformed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...analysis so they will burst into fragments not too large & not too small to insure maximum bloodshed. Hence they had always been forged, and many an ordnance officer swore they couldn't be cast: cast steel is full of pores and bubbles, it shrinks in its molds to nonuniform sizes, its metallic structure is unreliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Casting v. Forging | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Radio waves can be used to dry artificial silk as it is spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ingenious Waves | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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