Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supercollider would be still another in a string of new colossal accelerators that seem to be proliferating almost as rapidly as the novel particles they produce. In these machines, electrons or protons (and usually their antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required...
Following a string of confrontations last year, when word-processing students refused to relinquish their terminals for students who needed them for class work, the center this year took the 38 MacIntoshes off the word-processing market, said J. Lance F. Jackson, manager of computer services for the Science Center...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: Yale's loss to Penn Saturday in the Yale Bowl broke a string of nine straight wins at home...In the second half of its last two games, Harvard has scored just seven points...Of the 116 points the Crimson has scored this year, only 29 have come in the first half...Santiago's 49-yard scamper in the first half last weekend was his--and the team's--longest run from scrimmage this year...Harvard has given up just two touchdowns in the last 10 quarters of play...The crowd for the Princeton game...
Furthermore, the win enabled Coach Jape Shattuck's squad to string together consecutive victories for the first time this year--both of them shutouts...
With the 17-0 victory, Cabot-North extended its shutout string to two games...