Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors to Mexico City's National Bellas Artes gallery last week saw a mountain of modern Mexican painting. Except for the work of one artist, the mountain was close to being an extinct volcano. But inextinguishable firebrand David Alfaro Siqueiros had summoned up enough live steam and hot lava to make plenty of activity...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...
...cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Assuming that the power source is uranium or plutonium, such an engine would require: 1) a chain-reacting pile of several tons (which would provide energy in the form of heat); 2) boilers and other equipment for converting the pile's heat into steam; 3) massive shields to protect crews from the pile's deadly radiation; 4) a conventional turbine...
Started in 1940, the network shortly ran into serious technical difficulties because its broadcasts, which were going over the steam radiator pipes, reached too far to comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations. Not to be discouraged the operators started again in September 1941, this time over the electric wiring system, and have been broadcasting successfully ever since. In 1945 the studio was moved from the condemned Sheppard Hall to the present location in the basement of Dudley Hall...