Word: thermos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such an introductory semester of math might give the rudimentary concepts of functions, calculus, and the limit--a requisite for understanding the idea of approximation and measurement. With a semester of math under his belt the student could continue on to a semester of basic physics--perhaps mechanics and thermo-dynamics--to get the fundamental concepts of energy...
...group of staffers started to copy Volume II (the conference record) page by page on the office Thermo-Fax machine ordinarily used to copy letters and other single sheets of paper. Meanwhile, Staff Photographer George Tames was put to work photographing Volume I (the background papers). As duplicates came off the Thermo-Fax machine, five Teletype operators began sending the conference record over the Times's leased wires to New York. They worked all night, and by next day had 14 additional Western Union circuits operating at one time to New York. They tied up so many wires that...
...year-old scientist is known for his pioneering research in high pressures and for his contributions to thermo-dynamical theory and the philosophy of science. His investigations of the changes that occur in various materials when they are subjected to high pressure have given new insight into the properties of matter...
...muffle the din of the Thermo-Nuclear Age, some British authors in the last 16 months have pulled the blanket of history over their heads and burrowed in the warm, dark bed of the past. H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey was a skillfully done period piece about England under Henry VIII. In The Golden Hand, Edith Simon told a leisurely tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century...