Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Traces. The dam project already has changed the life of Upper Egypt. The once-sleepy resort of Aswan, where thin-blooded Edwardians and the Aga Khan wintered, has become a boom town; its population has effectively tripled in the past four years to 140,000. Steel mills, nucleonics plants, and vast chemical complexes that will provide fertilizer to replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt." Four resort hotels, plus the Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where...
...giant control surfaces uses up 2,000 h.p., more than the output of both engines of a wartime B-25 bomber. If built conventionally, it would have been far too heavy; for the XB-70A, fluid pressure was raised to 4,000 Ibs. per sq. in. in unusually thin tubing. Such changes save weight, but they also increase the hazards of a system that has already proved a notorious source of aircraft trouble...
...Punting notes that the dorms were originally planned to provide "a thin life for undergraduates." "In my darker moods," she smiles, "I consider that with the building of the Study Center-Fourth House complex, Radcliffe will begin to have more the feeling of a college, rather than of barracks from which girls go out to attend classes at Harvard." She emphasizes that there have been many advantages to Radcliffe's increasingly close connection with the University, but some important things have gotten lost. Someday, she hopes, there will be many more "things to do" at the Quad; everything from...
...modern artist has stepped as far out into thin air as wan, visionary Frederick Kiesler, 67. More than steel, stone, bronze, wood or oil paints, his medium is space...
...allowing the direction of electron beams to be precisely controlled in a vacuum tube. Liquids, from water to molten metals, boil and evaporate quickly at low temperatures in a vacuum and condense in an even film on any surface they strike. Thus industry has been able to lay thin metal grids in microcircuits (TIME, Feb. 7) and coat cheap plastic jewelry, auto trim or Christmas wrappings so that they look like gold or silver...