Word: radial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two kinds of energy: "tangential" energy on the outside of entities, and "radial" energy, which operates within. Everything, says Teilhard, has this "within" and "without," and it is the radial energy within that is the evolutionary force, driving toward greater and greater complexity. This drive produced the molecule, the cell, organic life, up through the ooze...
...soon in convulsions and a raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes with the core of the artificial kidney. Key part of this core: cellophane tubing of ordinary sausage-casing size. From the core, other tubes led back to veins in the patient's elbow...
...more subtle and complex model makes is possible for the student to compare his answers with the printed correct response which the machine shows to him. In this type the information is printed in thirty radial frames on a paper disk. The disk is inserted, and once locked inside cannot be removed for examination (or cheating) until all the answers have been completed. The portion of the frame in which the correct answer is written is concealed until the student writes his own answer on a paper strip, visible through another opening...
...whirl around on a constant orbit of 236-foot diameter between a series of 48 strong-focusing magnets. The circular tunnel which encloses it will have a powerhouse in the middle to supply the energy for the magnets. The accelerator tunnel and the powerhouse will be connected by four radial tunnels...
...class's "lack of warmth," wrote Wolfe in Of Time and the River, "the absence of inner radial heat which, not being fundamental in the structure of their lives, had never been wanted, filled [me] with a horror and impotent fury...