Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Made of thin Neoprene latex (synthetic rubber), the balloon was about 17 feet in diameter while on the ground. It was partially inflated with hydrogen, which expanded it into a sphere only when it reached 35,000 feet. Rising still higher, the balloon stretched itself to 75 feet in diameter before it finally burst...
...oriented towards the West, there is a growing Communist minority in Palestine that may someday threaten the government. Controlling only about 20 per cent of the vote at present, this Communist segment balloons each time Israel is rebuffed by the United States and Great Britain. And in the economic sphere there is increasing agitation for an oil agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply all the oil Haifa could handle...
...such action would fall miserably short of its goal in the long run. Israel would not wither and die. Instead, the new state would cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
Briggs Cage practice was doomed almost from the beginning. Shortly after the workout began the lights all over Soldiers Field blacked out. With no white ball at hand, the teams were forced to abandon the customary brown sphere for a hypothetical one which did not fumble so easily...
...bathyscaphe, long abuilding (TIME, July 8, 1946; Aug. 18, 1947) is a steel sphere 6½ feet in outside diameter with thick walls to resist the enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe...