Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavies race, described by Coach Harvey Love as "pretty much of a water fight" over the short distance of three-quarters of a mile, proved the old fall rowing axiom, "The highest stroking boat wins...
...research that led to the award began in 1934, when Cherenkov. then 30, noticed a bluish glow where gamma rays from radium were striking through water in a flask. The glow was exceedingly faint, and a less curious man might have put it aside as ordinary fluorescence, which is given off by many materials when struck by gamma rays. But Cherenkov's mysterious light proved to be strongly polarized, had a continuous (rainbow-like) spectrum, and was given off predominantly in the direction of the gamma rays...
...Cherenkov radiation remained a tantalizing mystery until three years later. Two other Soviet physicists, Ilya M. Frank and his senior, Igor Tamm (who studied at Edinburgh and speaks English with a Scottish burr), became interested, worked out a strange but correct theory. When gamma rays pass through water, they hit electrons, and the impact bumps the electrons up to high velocities. The electrons do not move faster than light in a vacuum (186,000 m.p.sec., the Einsteinian speed limit of the universe), but they do move faster than light in water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit...
...tribesman sadly predicted that Jean-Marie would live some day like white men, drink water from a tap, not from the spring, and even use a tablecloth at dinner. Author Beti, himself a native of the Cameroons, describes the tribal way of life with such affection and good humor that even the hardened Western reader will long to swap his faucets and tablecloths for the refreshing springs and loincloths of the Cameroonian sticks...
...Omnibus (NBC. 5-6 p.m.). The thesis is that the human body behaves under water like an atomic submarine, or vice versa, and Esther Williams is on hand to demonstrate...