Word: spectra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same group of scientists maintains a laboratory to duplicate the sun's heat for a few millionths of a second. By studying gases' spectra on earth at these high temperatures (roughly 10,000 F.), they can interpret the sun's spectra detected by the Harvard telescope...
...wall, Eva Hesse has lined up a row of 30 glistening clear fiberglass half-box forms, whose intentionally sloppy casting endows them with a bubbly effervescence. Charles Ross's Plexiglas prisms are filled with mineral oil, so that museumgoers see other museumgoers distorted through them, edged in rainbow spectra. Even marble seems to soar, at least in Minoru Niizuma's vertical marble column entitled Windy Wind...
...prowess that characterized its earlier years. The company dominates the color-TV market, largely because of a $150 million investment back in the 1950s in a color system that has since been adopted throughout the U.S. An equally ambitious venture in the computer field, notably the company's Spectra 70 series, looks like a winner after a shaky start. NBC meanwhile, goes on setting one new sales record after another-even though it still ranks slightly behind CBS in the TV viewer ratings...
...targets illuminated by invisible infra-red laser beams. Peeling Potatoes. The various laser wave lengths, about 1,000 times shorter than those of the microwaves used in conventional radar, make laser altimeters, range finders and aerial mappers remarkably accurate. In a demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only the slope of the stadium; the laser picked out each row of seats, the one-foot space between each row, and even the slight depression...
...most successful literary put-ons; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Disgusted with the imagist, expressionist and futurist schools of poetry, Bynner in 1916 founded a spurious "spectrist school." Helped by fellow poet Arthur Ficke and a bottle of Scotch a day, he produced in ten days a volume called Spectra, which was praised for two years by eminent critics for such spoofy lines...