Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer's dressing gown...
Kinko Riding a Carp is a reversal of that gesture-not reality drowned but imagination borne upon the stream. The energy of Korin's brush reflects the lightning lift and speed of human imagination, which is capable of almost anything, even of riding on the back of a fish. His art also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from...
...brainchild of the University of Chicage's Dr. Marcel Schein and financed by the National Science Foundation, the balloon rig is designed to catch cosmic ray particles while they are still streaking in from distant space at interstellar speed, unhampered by dense air. Even those that are single protons can carry far more energy than the most powerful particles generated in earthbound laboratories. Striking into Dr. Schein's plates, they will leave traces of their passing in the form of lacy tracks that physicists can decipher to provide new clues to some of the most baffling mysteries...
...Speeding Disks. It is known, for instance, that when two protons collide at low speed, each transfers all its energy to the other. But when particles collide at very high speed, the energy transfer may be as low as 10%. One explanation of this behavior is based on the relativistic principle that objects moving at extremely high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass...