Word: tunnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main body of the machine will be housed underground in a large doughnut-shaped tunnel in the vicinity of the cyclotron, just north of the University Museum...
Along the rest of "Motor Mile" on Commonwealth Avenue, all the other brands were celebrating Washington's birthday. Chevrolet dealers wore red boutonnieres and were offering a television set as a prize to some lucky customer. Plymouth featured an impressive lineup of pushbutton drive, oriflow shock absorbers, and wind tunnel tested air fins. Perhaps not first in war or first in peace, it claimed to be first in the low-priced three...
...Tunnel of Love (by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries; based on DeVries' novel) suggests at the outset a satiric cannonade on that citadel of Exurbanites and seacoast bohemia, Westport, Conn. But it soon abandons anything so highbrow and becomes an illustrated jokebook on styles in childbearing. When married women aren't having children, unmarried ones are; or couples are adopting; or the sins of the fathers become the adoptees of their wives...
...whole, it both bogs down as a tale and goes out of bounds in the telling. Motherhood may or may not be sacred, but it cannot for three acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead...
...M.P.H. SPEEDS for intercontinental missiles will be studied at Cornell University under new $1,000,000 Air Force contract. School will build hypersonic wind tunnel and high-temperature research apparatus, test models at 15 times speed of sound and temperatures close to sun's surface (10,000°F.). Biggest job: to develop metals that can withstand such heat...