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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steam & Sentiment. What Anger lacked in plot, sense and good taste it made up for in steam and sentiment. If Playwright Osborne succeeded in being only half-acid, his admirers did not seem to mind. One evening last autumn Sir Laurence Olivier went backstage after a performance, politely wondered aloud if Osborne might have a part for him in any new play. Very much in character, Osborne superciliously replied: "I don't know-possibly." Then he began remixing a batch of anger in process called The Entertainer so that its lead-a sodden, cynical, third-rate music-hall trouper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Most Angry Fella | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Just Like Steam. The charm of the free piston engine is that it has many of the advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Turbine | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...free piston engine is a hybrid: a simplified piston engine that develops no direct mechanical power, but delivers high pressure exhaust gas that can be made to run a turbine, just like steam from a boiler (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Turbine | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Exterminators have traced the cockroaches in the band room and Union to the University's underground steam tunnels, Kenneth H. Lang '58, band manager, stated yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roaches Traced To Steam Tunnel By Exterminators | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

When contacted last night, a member of the Buildings and Grounds crew refuted the steam tunnel theory. "The steam tunnels are spotless, spick-and-span, all painted white," he said. "I don't see how it's possible for roaches to reside there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roaches Traced To Steam Tunnel By Exterminators | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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