Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a stand on 100,000 units and get nothing, then I'm for 50,000 units." To Morse, Humphrey's vote for the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill was nothing less than heresy. But Humphrey has a retort proper: "You don't legislate in a vacuum. I was convinced that if we did not pass that labor bill we would have got a worse one next year." As a pragmatic politician, says Humphrey, "you've got to make small adjustments...
...every hi-fi addict knows, the amplifier is the part of his set that makes little angular noises into big round ones. In the parlor version, it is a dazzling assembly of vacuum tubes, resistors and capacitors. The invention of transistors twelve years ago enabled a speck of germanium to do the work of the vacuum tube, but most of the rest of the circuitry was still needed. Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head...
...compared to $350 for a culture white pearl dyed black. A large canary diamond (not to be confused with off-color or cheap "yellow" diamonds) may bring ten times the price of a white stone. Diamonds can be synthetically colored by atomic radiation or dyed by a vacuum process similar to coating a photo lens...
...baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
Crucial in the theory of relativity is the nature and behavior of light. In the 19th century, the prevailing idea was that light is a wave motion, and therefore needs a medium to travel in, as sound waves travel in air. Since light passes unhindered through vacuums, including the vacuum between the stars and the earth, 19th century scientists were driven to postulate a "luminiferous ether." which filled all space. It offered no resistance to the motions of stars or planets, but carried light waves with perfect efficiency...