Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the characteristics of its molecules, gaseous ammonia absorbs radio microwaves of certain sharp frequencies. When such waves are shot through ammonia gas, the radio waves are absorbed as long as they are vibrating at the right speed. If they vibrate too fast or too slow, an electronic device retunes the transmitter and makes the waves vibrate at the exact frequency that is absorbed most strongly. Thus the waves, regulated by the ammonia molecules as the escapement of a clock is regulated by its pendulum, keep to a steady beat. Hitched to a "frequency divider," they measure time accurately...
...Catholic and Jewish Churches already have nationwide organizations working on the problem, but Protestants have been slow getting started Rev. Gardner Day, president of the Council declared last night in announcing the program. "It's getting so I'll feel it's a handicap to be a Protestant Day added...
...game Winthrop got off to a slow start, trailing 17 to 2 at one point in the first half. The game was tied when Dudley grabbed the winning point 30 seconds before the final whistle...
...topnotch musical of Kiss Me, Kate is Cole Porter's score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than...
Just a year ago, two doctors announced that they had isolated a virus which causes one type of common cold (TIME, Jan. 5). It was a good start, but there was a lot of slow work ahead. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas, at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., had to keep testing their virus, called MR-I,* on human volunteers. They put the virus, kept alive in fertilized chicken eggs, into the noses of inmates of District...