Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the research ship Albatross of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute returned from a 22,000-mile Atlantic cruise with new information about the Gulf Stream obtained by a gadget called the Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph. GEK is a steel box full of vacuum tubes which analyzes electrical information from two electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
...most charts the speed of the Gulf Stream is given as about one knot. After making 1,200 GEK readings, the scientists on the Albatross decided that the stream has been underrated. Between Cape Hatteras and the Grand Bank, it often flows as fast as four or five knots. It also squirms erratically through the Atlantic. Ships steaming through it are sometimes moving with the current and sometimes against it. So their navigators put the average speed of the stream much...
Personally, he seems to have reached that point already, but this Fonda fellew can't ever break away in that play. Too caught up in the stream of things. Ought to congratulate him on that performance...
...experiment not only brought Shaw a fat stream of royalty checks until his death, but it stimulated a flagging Hollywood demand for Laughton and Charles Boyer in film roles and has given all four members of the quartet new earnings comparable to their income from the movies...
...when a story "really comes off... there mustn't be one single word out of place or one word that could be taken out." She took her characters just as hard: "I've stood for hours on the Auckland Wharf. I've been out in the stream waiting to be berthed-I've been a seagull hovering at the stern and a hotel porter whistling through his teeth." In a handful of stories, notably Bliss, Prelude and The Garden-Party, she came near passing her only test: perfection. She also achieved what Henry James regarded...