Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bius loop can be made by cutting a harrow strip of paper and gluing its ends together after giving the strip a half-turn. The loop that results has peculiar qualities. Most important, though the paper it is made of has two sides, the loop itself has only one surface. This can be proved by drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops...
Double Passage. Davis made a Möbius loop out of a strip of nonconducting plastic that had metal foil bonded to both sides to serve as an electrical resistance. He attached wires to the foil on opposite sides of the strip. When he sent electrical pulses through those wires, the current divided, flowed in both directions through the foil, and passed itself twice. Because of the double passage, the inductance was as low as Davis had hoped. He is delighted but still puzzled. The pulses apparently pass right through themselves, and he cannot be sure...
...those who pursue her on the funny page. She has been castigated by the pulpit, educators, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip. The high crime rate in Little Orphan Annie periodically produces other defectors...
Lukens Steel of Coatesville, Pa., concentrates on the heavy plates used in ships and in large tanks for liquids, and Pittsburgh's Crucible Steel has become the world's largest manufacturer of steel for tools. Sharon Steel of Sharon, Pa., is a major producer of the strip steel that goes into office furniture and such auto parts as dashboards. Texas' Lone Star Steel converts local ore into pipes for oilmen, boasts overnight delivery to almost any driller in the Southwest. Says Lone Star Chairman George A. Wilson: "We've just got to give better service than...
...civil war and ruled the nation for a decade until his death in 1658, "providence and necessity" seemed synonymous. In this finely etched account of the winter of 1648-49, the height of Cromwell's career, British Historian C. V. Wedgewood shows how relentlessly he invoked both, to strip away the "divinity that doth hedge a king...