Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Doughnuts. Britain's ZETA (Zero-Energy Thermonuclear Assembly), which was shown last week by Sir John Cockcroft at Harwell atomic laboratory, looks like three 10-ft. doughnuts laced together like links of a chain. The central horizontal torus (scientific word for a doughnut shape) is a ring-shaped aluminum vacuum chamber with a 39-in. bore. The two vertical doughnuts linked into it are the iron cores of a transformer. When a small amount of deuterium gas is fed into the evacuated torus and a heavy electric current is shot through the transformer, an even heavier current (this...
...current completely ionizes the deuterium, knocking its atoms apart into positive nuclei (deuterons) and negative electrons. When a powerful current flows through this sort of "plasma," a strange thing happens. The gas is compressed by the magnetic field that the current generates. It gathers in a ring at the center of the torus, and the current flowing through the ring heats the gas to millions of degrees...
...victory in this Massachusetts version of the welterweight championship which Akins had won in this same ring last October put Virgil very much in the National Boxing Assn. Welter plans...
Ringworm. In Toronto, Mildred Put-nik, 28, testified that when she returned her engagement ring to ex-Fiance James Kuca three days after he gave it to her, he made her pay $100 for depreciation...
Runner-Up. In Sitka, Alaska, the Sentinel carried an advertisement: "For Sale: Engagement ring, 3 weeks old, never worn. Was tied for 2nd place with six others. Will sell cheap...