Word: optimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike the heavy, metal-edged varieties used by downhill aficionados, touring skis are narrow and graceful. The waxable kind that require specially color-coded waxes for different temperatures give optimum performance. But the skier must become something of an expert on snow and weather conditions and take the time to continually change waxes: a day's outing could necessitate the use of green for subzero temperatures, blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide...
...that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...
...yesterday morning's trials, 20 of the 23 Crimson entrants performed at optimum speed, and further astonished their opponents by outdoing themselves in the evening races with even better times...
...will be no moratorium on building ... there will just be more and more architecture without architects." To travel in American cities is to know what he meant; the townscape of the '70s is perfused with cost-accountant buildings that bear no trace of human imagination: three-dimensional graphs of optimum efficiency, seemingly designed by computers for insects. In the whole pattern of American building, real architecture is a minority's activity...
...Director ... continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity ... actually showed them ... how the eggs ... were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle; how ... this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillion containing free-swimming spermatozoa...