Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deke Parsons kept working. A top naval ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
Perhaps the strangest episode in his strange life came just before Gage decided to recant. Although he pleads throughout his narrative against "Popish superstitions"-including prayers to the saints-he nevertheless made a pilgrimage to Loreto to test his strength as heretic. He had already half decided to renounce Rome and become a Protestant. If, he reasoned, he prayed in bad faith before the image of Our Lady of Loreto, surely it would blush or sweat. But the image made not a sign...
Quoting a recent monograph describing a so-called "meritocracy," Halsey stated that in light of current trends in education, the twenty-first century will find "the intelligence test more important than the birth certificate...
...test's purpose was to find what happens when a nuclear warhead explodes in a virtual vacuum above the bulk of the atmosphere. The behavior of a nuclear explosion near sea level is known precisely. The nuclear fireball expands very fast at first, but both its temperature and pressure fall as it gets bigger. When its pressure equals that of the air, the ball stops expanding (for a megaton explosion, at a diameter of about one mile). The air also absorbs gamma and ultraviolet rays, confines radioactive particles to a comparatively small cloud...
...bouquet of flowers aloft in triumph. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 22, of Kingsburg, Calif, had treated appreciative Muscovites to one of the greatest individual performances in track and field history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance ever devised in sport. Russian men and women edged the U.S. 172-170 in their dual meet last week, and Soviet papers duly hailed the feat, but Rafe Johnson was the big hero. Said Moscow's Trud of his performance : "It will dignify the history of world...