Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives in, is measured by the motion of the earth. The basic unit of time is a day: one revolution of the earth. But recently the battered old earth has fallen into disrepute as a timekeeper. It is not accurate enough for the needs of modern science. Its spin is gradually slowing down-because of the drag of the tides. It also varies slightly, from day to day, for reasons that science does not understand...
...Hogan still dislikes. Says he: "Putting is foreign to the rest of the game. One of them should be called golf and the other something else." He put in long practice "tapping" the ball (for short putts) and "rolling" it (for long ones). Then he took a practice spin around Riviera's 18-hole championship course...
...gravitation any more than do the passengers of a freely falling elevator. Their bodies, tools-and food would have no weight except that caused by the feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce centrifugal force that would act like gravitation. Then the satellite's crew, walking around on the inside of the shell, would feel more or less at home...
General Electric Co. started building the first pilot plant to convert nuclear fission to electrical energy, although the use of atomic power to generate electricity on a commercial scale seemed at least a decade off. On U.S. railroads, the diesel revolution was in full spin; of 1,159 new locomotives put in service during the first ten months, 1,082 were diesels. Jet engines 4 swooshed into their own; of the 3,661 new military planes ordered during the year, 2,209 were jet-powered...
With the vacuum equipment out of the way, the main job now is building and attaching the oscillator to the cyclotron. As the protons spin around, the oscillator boosts their speed each time they pass. These successive boosts often result in velocities greater than 10,000 miles per second...