Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough to vault the massed forces of the Wagnerian orchestra, and a baritone of considerable theatrical skill to probe the complex character of Cobbler Hans Sachs, one of grand opera's most intriguing heroes. It can also benefit greatly from a well-drilled chorus and properly poetic settings. Last week an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House saw a Meistersinger that had all of these attributes and more...
...discovery was made by Dr. Wilhelm Rindner while he was poking under a microscope with a delicate probe, studying surface defects on a tiny transistor. The transistor was hooked up to a voltmeter, and Dr. Rindner soon noticed something peculiar: even his gentlest pokes at the transistor made the voltmeter fluctuate. He concluded that the transistor was sensitive to pressure as well as to electrical effects...
HALF-BURIED in a mount of earth behind the Biological Labs lies the newest and most spectacular addition to the University's scientific facilities, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Built in conjunction with M.I.T., the accelerator is the largest and most powerful in the world, and is expected to probe deeply into the many unsolved problems of high energy physics...
...electron, with its opposing electrical field, does not react nearly so strongly with protons. It can pass near, or even through a proton and be scattered away without violently disturbing the proton itself. For this reason, the electron is a useful probe for examining the internal structure of the proton...