Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, complex telescopes of modern astronomy have a simple purpose: to concentrate light. Their mirrors (up to 200 inches in diameter) and lenses catch a wide bundle of light rays from faint stars or nebulae and cram them together at a small focus on a sensitized plate. Last week two French astronomers, Andre Lallemand and Maurice Duchesnes, were showing off a new wrinkle in astrophotography. Instead of depending on the original starlight to make the photographic impression, they plan to amplify the light's energy before it reaches the plate...
...image of the object to be photographed is first focused on a glass plate covered with an antimony and cesium compound, which gives off electrons when struck by light. At every point in the image electrons are knocked loose. Off to a slow start, they are whisked away at tremendous speeds by a powerful electric field. Then they are focused by a magnetic lens (as in an electron microscope) to form a new image on a photographic plate. The speeded-up electrons have taken energy from the electric field and form an image about 100 times stronger than the original...
...does between pictures, such mechanical fakery should never be necessary. Lanza's idea of dieting, based on his own theory that proteins can add no weight, is to pile chicken legs, half-pound chunks of rare steak and a mound of barbecued kidneys on his plate, devour them and then heap on a second helping. For breakfast, he holds down to a steak and four to six eggs. He usually skips lunch. With great effort ("I go crazy"), he resists the spaghetti, ravioli and pizza he dearly loves, and the beer he loves scarcely less. In the old days...
...touch of a button the doors open. To make getting in & out easy, the convertible top snaps back partway when the door opens, then locks in place again after the door is shut. When the top is down, rain will raise it automatically as it hits a sensitized plate on the seat...
Even the aisles in Fenway Park had filled up a half an hour before game time Tuesday night. It was Johnny Pesky Night, as well as the first of a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox. At 8:15 the announcer strode to the microphone at home plate as the two teams lined up on the foul lines...