Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afro's memories go back to his childhood at Udine, near Venice, where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...
...great advantage of the system: it can use heat from any source. Eventually, it may be possible to convert the sun's heat directly into electricity, power spaceships by solar energy. Says Dr. Guy Suits, G.E. vice president and director of research: "Right now we think our converter is significant to science. If we can increase its efficiency, it will be fundamentally significant to technology...
Antonietta's seizures stopped when the Madonna's weeping began. Other cures swiftly followed. All that seemed needed was to brush the lame and the halt with a bit of cloth wetted by the tears of the Madonna; a 49-year-old man got back the use of his crippled left arm, a three-year-old girl moved her polio-paralyzed arm, an 18-year-old girl who had been dumb suddenly spoke...
There was little hope that Congrave would ever regain the use of the right side of his body. How severe and lasting the impairment of his vision would be could not yet be told, or the extent to which other fibers to the frontal and temporal areas of the cortex would take over the functions of those destroyed. The acid test of Congrave's recovery would be months hence, when a member of the chemical engineering faculty brings down his textbooks to see how much he has retained, how much more he can learn...
...year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like the one at Argonne could be hooked up to a power station, turn out power at 1.2? per kw-h near the .8?-.9? that would make it competitive with present commercial electricitv