Word: strippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...revolving moon brings lunar dawn, and temperatures rise quickly. The meteorites give up their stored energy in the form of visible light. Thus, Sun suggests, in a strip less than 100 miles wide alongside the lunar terminator-the line that divides the moon's areas of day and night-the moon emits light of its own, which may be almost as intense as its reflected sunlight...
...achieve underground paving, the M.S.U. researchers designed a tractor-pulled Rube Goldberg device that lifts a 2-ft.-deep strip of earth from the field, sprays warm liquid asphalt underneath it, and then allows the soil to settle back in place. The asphalt solidifies immediately into a 34-in.-wide, ⅛-in.-thick ribbon. Adjacent ribbons are overlapped to ensure that the entire layer will be watertight. To reduce costs, Engineer Hansen is now working on a machine that will lay down lO-ft.-wide strips...
...California's Soledad prison in 1958 for an "indeterminate" sentence of six months to ten years-with a chance for early parole if he behaved. He did not. By last year, Jordan was a familiar tenant of Soledad's Adjustment Center, in what the prison calls a "strip cell" for "incorrigibles...
...first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California to clean up strip cells in keeping with the "primal rules of a civilized community...