Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the present accelerator will be a "cooling tower" for lowering the temperature of water circulated through the magnets of the synchrotron to dissipate its power. This process will require 8,000 kilowatts of electricity...
...There may be reluctance to criticize the work of the Court for fear that any such criticism would be taken out of context by opponents of the segregation decisions and used to bring disrespect to the orderly process of constitutional adjudication," Clark Byse, professor of Law, declared in the December Law Review...
Kluckhohn explained that all societies have reservoirs of tension and submerged hostility, because the individuals in these societies have given up "their most deeply felt wishes" in the process of socialization. This repression makes it psychologically necessary not only to hate, but to have people or things we can hate with social approval...
...related process, testosterone can be transformed into testololactone. Chemists at E. R. Squibb & Sons had found that bacteria could make testololactone by fermentation. When they tried to produce it this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...