Word: steams
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Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...
...year ago the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) did not even exist in the Uruguayan political picture. Today there is scarcely anyone in the tiny South American nation (pop. 2,900,000) who has not heard of the new leftist coalition. It has picked up so much popular steam since it was formed last February that some observers go so far as to give it a fair chance of winning next week's presidential elections. The latest Gallup poll, released last week, shows the Broad Front running a close second among Montevideo's voters to the ruling Colorado party...
Like ordinary nuclear reactors, breeders produce heat through fission-the familiar process of splitting unstable radioactive atoms by bombarding them with small, fast-moving particles called neutrons. As the atoms disintegrate, they release large amounts of heat that can be converted into steam and used to drive conventional turbogenerators. They also release additional neutrons, which in turn smash neighboring atoms and thus continue the heat-producing chain reaction inside the reactor...
...their promise, many design problems must be solved before breeders can produce electricity on a commercial scale. One difficulty lies in handling the coolant-the liquid or gas used to transfer heat from inside the reactor's core to a steam-producing boiler outside. Unlike conventional reactors, which use water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive...
...steam roll, but I feel certain we'll win," said Radcliffe tennis coach Jean Evans of today's match with Wellesley...