Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East House, combines thoughtful scholarly appraisal and constant excitement. She answers questions carefully, sometimes hesitating and gazing into space before replying. "I just can't give pat answers--everything I do is exploratory," she emphasizes. But when Radcliffe's newly appointed dean speaks, often she blows a quick stream of smoke into the air and then turns to look directly at her companion. As an undergraduate at Radcliffe, she concentrated in History and Literature. She married Peter H. Solomon '40 "right after orals" but admits that hers was hardly a typical Harvard-Radcliffe romance: she and her husband had known...
...temple and now tells jokes with a message. Too often the message scrapes through, but the humor does not. He is a dedicated slayer of cliche philosophies. "Don't change horses in midstream," he scoffs. "Did you ever take two horses into the middle of a stream? That is stupid in itself. But I tried it, and you know, the second one was better." Somebody digs. Mason gets top bookings...
...Diamond's rockets passed through the 125-knot "jet stream," which boots airliners along from west to east some 35,000 ft. above the earth. Far above that, they found a speedier "upper jet stream," which reversed its direction with the changing seasons. During the fall and winter, it zooms out of the west at some 150 knots. In spring and summer, it slows to 100 knots and drives from east to west...
...either direction, its altitude seems to be about 150,000 ft. Significantly, the upper jet stream is a warm wind, ideal for refracting sound waves...
Diamond knew that the speed of sound is greater in warm air than in cold air. If a sound wave, rising through the sub-zero temperatures below the upper jet stream, suddenly hit a layer nearly as warm as the earth's surface, the top of the wave front, he figured, would accelerate. The whole front would then bend back earthward and rumble down. Diamond figured that he might be able to bounce a boom off the upper stream, predict its course, and record the boom as it came back to earth, thus helping to confirm his rocket data...