Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting he was so terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...
...made cyclotrons work by making electrically charged particles (such as deuterons) circle faster & faster inside a vacuum chamber. On each trip around, they get two boosts from a rapidly alternating electrical field. If the vacuum chamber were big enough, they might move in straight lines and pick up their energy from one long boost...
...said Menzel & Salisbury, in the great "vacuum chamber" (space) outside the earth's atmosphere. They start with the assumption that disturbances (such as sunspots) on the sun's surface send out powerful radio waves about a million miles long which set up "transient fields" in space. These pick up wandering protons and give them a mighty, long-lasting push. When the protons hit the earth's atmosphere, they have enough energy to rate as cosmic rays...
...Almost no rain falls on the coast. Air masses moving in from the Pacific are cooled crossing the cold Peru (Humboldt) Current, therefore pick up relatively little moisture. Easterly winds strike the Andes, precipitate their moisture on the eastern slopes, leave the coast...
...behind-the-scenes Republican, Butler was a close adviser of Teddy Roosevelt (who dubbed him "Nicholas Miraculous"). Later they quarreled, and Butler became William Howard Taft's running mate in 1912. In 1920 he made his own vain bid for the Republican nomination, with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November." But politicians could not overcome a suspicion that he was a stuffed shirt...