Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step toward economic direct conversion of heat to electricity was announced by a Westinghouse research team. Its basis is the so-called Seebeck effect, discovered in Germany in 1821, which shows that a current flows between two different metals (called a thermocouple) when the metals are held at different temperatures. Since such a system has no moving parts, the thermocouple is theoretically an ideal way to generate electricity. Catch has been that most suitable materials cannot stand the high temperatures needed to generate thermoelectric power on a large scale. By combining indium (a soft, silvery metal used in dental alloys...
West Germany's government took another stride toward making good on Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard's belief that a free-enterprising government should not be in big business. On public sale fortnight ago went a sizable block of stock in one of the 300 nationalized companies inherited by the government after World War II: 300,000 shares of the big (1958 sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little...
...Well, I mean, all kinds of interest-objects. Is that a paperweight on the mantel?" Vag said, as he advanced toward...
While the City stated that it acted out of good feeling toward the forty-two and the University, there has been considerable sentiment among Yale undergraduates that the city actually acted from fear that charges of provocation and brutality would be brought against the New Haven police...
Wilcox called on departments to be more liberal in granting credit toward the concentration requirement for the degree to New Sophomores who earn advanced placement in courses within the department concerned...