Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gasser would have applied to drama schools this year, but all of the auditions were held the week her thesis was due. She couldn't do both at the same time and might audition next year. Freshman year her first role was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then she went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard...
...than a dozen specialty issues, including bronze and silver replicas, through hobby dealers. The company's deluxe "Tiffany" set of glossy cards on heavily coated paper stock in serially numbered boxes sells for $125.95. Similarly, Fleer has gone upscale with its Commemorative Collectors Edition, encased in elegant gold-lacquered tin and extolled for its "meticulous detail and masterful craftsmanship" (up to $129.95). "There's no end in sight to all the different sets," says Allan Kaye, editor of Baseball Card News, a trade paper. The most novel selling approach may come from Major League Marketing. Its staple issue, Sportflics, features...
...forward as possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons...
...field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury, among others) to generate significant magnetic fields, the metals lost their superconductivity...
...until the 1950s that scientists discovered alloys, such as niobium tin and niobium titanium, that keep their superconductivity in the presence of intensely strong magnetic fields. And it was not until the '60s and '70s that the manufacture of large superconducting magnets became standardized. But progress toward the other goal of superconductivity researchers, pushing the phenomenon into a practical temperature range, was even slower. By 1973, some 62 years after Kamerlingh Onnes had found superconductivity in mercury at 4.2 K, scientists had upped the temperature to only 23 K, using an alloy of niobium and germanium. After 1973: no improvement...