Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparatus, however, can record the energy released by invisible radiation from the neutral hydrogen atom when its single electron does a "flip flop" (reverses its spin). By calculations astronomers can then place the gaseous clouds in their proper position in space...
...served instead as Navy Minister, then as a member of the War Advisory Council, where he recaptured some of his old voice. Said he to a delegation of war manufacturers who complained of the shortage of copper wire: "What do you want me to do about it? Spin it out of my tail like a spider?" He saw his New Guinea policy vindicated, and lived on to witness the collapse of world relations more threatening than that following Versailles...
Until recently, jet engines had only one essential moving part: the rotor. The forward end of its shaft spins an air compressor, which usually looks like a series of small windmills on the rear end of the shaft. High-pressure air from the last windmill goes to the combustion chambers where the fuel is burned. Hot gases formed there spin a turbine. The turbine turns the compressor, and the gases that pass through it shoot out the tailpipe in a high-speed jet whose reaction pushes the airplane forward...
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin...
Months after the charging of the first still, an operator opens the last centrifuge (like a housewife's spin-dryer) at the far end of the 100,000-sq. ft. production area. A label on the wall proclaims: "KE Pure" (KE is Merck's intramural abbreviation for cortisone). The bottom and sides of the centrifuge are thickly coated with a clammy white powder. From the looks of it, it might be talcum or aspirin. But it is far more precious: 35 lbs. of KE pure is enough to make 635,000 tablets of 25 milligrams each, enough...