Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of hemodynamics-the mechanics of blood flow and pressure within arterial walls. Cholesterol is carried evenly through the body with the blood. But neither stress on arterial walls nor hardening of the arteries is uniform; both tend to coincide at artery junctions, just as water forced through a pipe exerts greatest pressure at the joints. To stay healthy the arterial wall must remain elastic, expanding and contracting with blood pressure. Normal high blood pressure exerts "wear and tear" on the arterial walls without necessarily causing arteriosclerosis. But under changing, abnormally high pressures set off by emotional stress or organic...
McMahon's challenge took Murchison by surprise. The Texan's company, Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., has held the pipeline franchise for almost two years, and Clint Murchison once grandly declared that the building of it would be "the major achievement of my life." But Murchison had trouble financing the deal. The line had to run through an uninhabited area of northern Ontario, which called for a subsidy from the Canadian government and a measure of acquiescence on the part of competing U.S gas companies...
...Lowell House student last night "tried to find out how a refrigerator worked," ruptured the machine's gas pipe, and had to be rescued by the fire department...
...tube is a 4-in. pipe, 100 ft. long, with a massive cylindrical chamber at either end. Nearly all the air is pumped out of the tube and one chamber. Then air is pumped into the other chamber, which is sealed off from the tube by a strong metal diaphragm. When the pressure reaches 2,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the diaphragm breaks. High-pressure air rushes into the tube, forming a shock wave whose temperature reaches 15,000° F.-1½ times the temperature of the sun's surface. It passes in a tiny fraction...
...this issue (see BOOKS). Tom occupied the corner for a year. By day the copy boy buzzer was a continual interruption, but late at night, when the big bullpen was dark except for the ceiling reflections of nearby Broadway's neons, he sat under a desk lamp, pipe-smoking and writing. Fifteen times Tom rewrote his book. Late in the summer of 1954 he quit TIME and went off to the cranberry boglands of New Jersey's Toms River country to live alone in a shack and polish the final version of his Korean war story...