Word: scyllas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Scylla-and-Charybdis existence makes today's university president no more than a mechanistic functionary. All too frequently Dodds defines presidential success in terms of strengthening weak departments, meeting people and participating in civic affairs with a practical eye towards public relations, raising money to meet deficits, planning the budget, delegating the tedious tasks, hiring and firing diplomatically. Throughout The Academic President is a sense that the president's job is to remedy the bad spots, await the crises, and react to problems Even when the president plans the future, he does so as a device for making...
...dead" question is a valid one. It relates to fundamental ideals. Yet a discussion of this issue certainly does not exclude the possibility that an alternative course does exist. In fact, most conservatives will be willing to argue that by a position of national strength we can escape both Scylla and Charybdis...
...shipments during the recession. But other difficulties are more chronic and basic. Some shippers complain about slow, costly stevedoring at Seaway ports. Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis...
...Shaped Fireball. The success cautiously announced by Dr. Tuck was achieved by Scylla, a cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...
...Tuck is sure that the Scylla neutrons came from genuine fusion of deuterium, but he points out that Scylla was never intended to be a practical source of thermonuclear energy. More promising for this purpose is Picket Fence, an apparatus that forms a cavity between strong magnetic fields. When deuterium nuclei are shot into the cavity, they sometimes stay there for 30 millionths of a second, a very long time in thermonuclear physics. Said Dr. Tuck: "For the first time I see in this device faint glimmerings of a possibility of making a thermonuclear reactor...