Word: wafers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern architect is turning back to study the work of the handful of pioneers who blazed the way for modern shell structures. One of the foremost and least known is Engineer Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 59. A short (5 ft. 4½ in.), bald-domed Spaniard, Torroja was throwing wafer-thin slabs of concrete up into space as early as 1933. His race-track stands, soccer stadiums, marketplaces, churches and aqueducts are only now getting the recognition they deserve as ancestors of some of today's most spectacular engineering feats...
...cups, put the Communion cup in the same category-"a potential source for the transmission of communicable disease." Episcopalian Evan Wright, director of the board's Food and Drug Division, was irate at the abandonment in his local church of the alternative method known as "intinction"-dipping the wafer into the wine. He did not threaten to have communicating priests arrested, but he said that he was not able to take Communion in the traditional form: "It is a very serious matter with me. I may even have to change my church...
...original capsules, tested at the military hospital and by the Ministry, were dangerous enough, but the mass-produced capsules contained about three times as much tin compound as the experimental ones. They were made with such primitive methods (pressed in a century-old gadget that looked like a wafer machine) that no two capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony...
...sidesteps this difficulty by mixing the promethium 147 with a phosphor (light-giving substance) and enclosing the mixture in transparent plastic. Electrons from the Pm-147 make the phosphor glow, and its light is turned into electricity by a photoelectric surface of silicon on each side of the plastic wafer. No electrons escape from the plastic, and so the silicon is not damaged...
...that it is the largest, or even among the largest of German steel companies. It ranks No. 9. What it does claim is "mass quality" and inventive ingenuity, for B.V. engineers have found ingenious ways to compound 350 kinds of steel alloys, mass-produce delicate spring steel for watches, wafer-thin sheet steel for razor blades, high-quality steel for turbines and locomotive wheels...