Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sick selling platers, Bruneau bought a four-year-old bay named Pyrame, a short-winded chronic wheezer with an unimpressive record on the track. A special stall was built half a mile from La Bourboule's best spring, outfitted with hot and cold running water plus steam pipes, and Pyrame began the cure...
Daily at 5 a.m., the horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...
...Democrats had a grand time when they baited the Administration over the big Dixon-Yates contract that would have allowed private utilities to build a $107 million steam plant to service the Memphis, Tenn. area (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955). They claimed that the deal bypassed and weakened the TVA, thus focused the argument on public v. private power. Further, they said, the AEC had no statutory authority to make the contract. The Democrats' best ammunition came late in the debate when Senate investigators learned that one Adolphe H. Wenzell had acted as consultant to the Budget Bureau...
...blow off steam in suburban Long Island is to write a letter to Newsday (circ. 239,972), which runs readers' complaints in a special "County Irritant" column. Last month, after two teen-age girls had signed their names to a letter lamenting the dearth of summer jobs, one of the girls became more irritated than ever. She complained that after her letter appeared, a telephone caller had offered her a $65-a-week job as all-around office helper. One of the job requirements: modeling in the nude...
Detecting neutrinos with ordinary instruments is like catching bats with a steam shovel. Since they carry no electric charge and are vanishingly small, they pay little attention to matter. The average neutrino can probably pass through billions or trillions of miles of dense material without being stopped by it. Neutrons do, however, "interact" slightly with protons; so there is a very small chance that if a great many neutrinos pass through a material rich in protons, a few of them will be intercepted in a way that can be detected...