Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left Peru aboard a new raft bound for Tahiti, but wind, wave and current carried him far north until last week he and his crew faced the reef at Rakahanga...
...Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down all but a single, suavely undulant wave...
...pitching deck with sure-footed agility that belies his 73 years. He cradles a battered Speed Graphic in his left arm, and from time to time he squints through the range finder, rises on his toes to kill the vibration of the 150-h.p. engine, waits for a wave to lift him and his target simultaneously, then snaps his shutter with a small cable release...
...M.I.T. text, enthusiastically accepted the basic idea: lead students to discover physics concepts through experiments, rather than use experiments to verify laws already memorized. Other M.I.T. innovations: increased emphasis on theoretical rather than applied physics; less electrical circuitry, greater stress on atomics; early teaching of the principle of wave action, to give a unifying theme to much of what will follow...
...real pioneers of the new physics course; they will face their classes with lab books still only half written, texts still partly mimeographed, experiments still to be polished or replaced by completely new demonstrations (the University of Minnesota's summer institute came up with two methods of studying wave motion, one with a Land camera and stroboscopic light, the other with magnetic tape). By fall of 1959, when the M.I.T. committee and the National Science Foundation hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high...