Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acoustica engineers explain that when a solid fuel burns in a high-pressure combustion chamber, the components, e.g., ammonium perchlorate and polystyrene, turn to gases that mix in a thin layer on its surface. Part of the heat generated strikes back to the fuel, gasifies more of it, and so keeps the flame burning. When this characteristic was discovered by Dr. Martin Summerfield of Princeton, the next step was to look for something that would control the gas mixture. A faster mixing would increase the burning rate, while slower mixing would decrease it. If the control were precise enough, scientists...
...mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...
...bonny banks of Loch Ness, six Scots, presumably of sound mind and eyesight, espied the lake's most celebrated resident frolicking in its blue waters. From one sea-serpent watcher came the latest description of the elusive, shy Loch Ness Monster: "I saw several humps and a long, thin, brown-colored tail in the middle of the lake. The backwash was about the length of three fishing boats...
...miscalculations can raise the pressure to the danger point. The rocket can explode if the nozzle is a few thousandths of an inch too small. A solid propellant may crack, sharply increasing the burning rate. Unburned propellant can block the nozzle, or flame can burn a hole in the thin casing. As any Cape Canaveral man knows, not even the pros can anticipate all possible ways for the rocket's restrained explosion to become unrestrained. Their motto: "Always assume that a rocket will explode...
Died. George Grosz, 65, artist who savagely satirized Germany's feverish society between the world wars, with a contorted line drew bloated military and businessmen and their writhing wire-thin victims, relied on his own vivid experience in World War I trenches to depict human beings oozing into animal-like forms under the pressures of war, derided the Nazis so devastatingly from the appearance of the first swastika that Hitler labeled him "Cultural Bolshevist No. 1 and featured him prominently in the 1937 Munich exhibition of degenerate art; of a heart attack; in Berlin. Grosz fled...