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Word: track (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular track inside the doughnut, triumphantly saw the oscillograph's curve reach 29 Bev, putting CERN's machine far ahead of the ten-Bev Russian accelerator at Dubna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: United for Atoms | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Loco Motive. In Newark, Joseph Matthews, 43, lay down on a railroad track between the rails, slept soundly while an engine roared over him, was awakened and arrested for trespassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Head coaches covered by the novel pact are Jordan Olivar, football; Murray Murdock, hockey; Jim Rathschmidt, crew; Ethan Allen, baseball; Phil Morriarty, swimming; Bob Giegengack and Frank Ryan, track; John Skillman, tennis; Bill Harkness, lacrosse and Joe Vancisin, basketball...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Yale Grants Coaches Appointments for Life | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Observatory Asks for Bids On New Wing | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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