Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boil to death in its own heat in 15 minutes. And a man in an airtight capsule would cook himself in seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...
...into the atmosphere. A parachute opened, and the cone drifted down to the sea. When it hit the surface, a small balloon inflated automatically, keeping the cone afloat. Guided by the C-545 and a homing transmitter in the cone itself, a destroyer fished the cone out of the water. It was the second consecutive nose-cone recovery after a shot of intercontinental range, providing data on re-entry protection for both men and weapons. The Air Force's description of the shot's accuracy: "Right down the rifle barrel...
...forms whose strength comes from shape and whose beauty springs from mathematical curves possible only in modern reinforced concrete. Torroja is fond of walking his institute visitors under the sickle-shaped ribs of the pergola that spring from the outside wall and curve elegantly overhead like jets of water frozen in a high wind, explaining with professional pride that they are actually "Bernoullian lemniscates* with zero end curvature." Says Torroja, "Every mathematical curve has a nature of its own, the accuracy of a law, the expression of an idea, the evidence of a virtue...
...clear-cut, conservative drawings at the Bianchini Gallery, found himself famed and in the money. What attracted critics and buyers alike was Gnoli's obvious mastery, modesty and calm. Though not the greatest virtues possible to art, these qualities are currently rare-and as delightful as cold water after a binge...
...resigned from the bank in 1908, when he was 49. Four months later he published a tale about a mole, a water rat and a scapegrace toad, called The Wind in the Willows. The London Times wrote stiffly that "as a contribution to natural history, the work is negligible." But Grahame's fable caught on with such varied readers as Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm, came to be one of those rare books recognized by both children and adults as a children's classic. It still sells about 80,000 copies a year...