Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost always male, though decorative females may be taken along for plot purposes. According to a symposium of psychologists which met in New York last week to discuss the public's notions about space flight, this athlete-type spaceman is miscast for the part. Every ounce of weight and every cubic inch of volume will be precious on a spaceship. Big, strong crewmen will not be welcome. Only brains to act as computers will be needed, plus an absolute minimum of supporting tissue...
...finds on the icecap. What it finds is snow, which gradually turns into solid ice about 15 ft. below the surface. Treated properly, both snow and ice are useful structural materials, easy to excavate and excellent insulators. They melt when exposed to heat, and deform slowly from their own weight, but the engineers have learned to minimize these failings...
...that titanium had fallen short of everyone's high hopes for it. Complained a vice president of a titanium-producing steel company: "Titanium is the greatest fiasco in metallurgical history. It draws gases to it like flies to flypaper. The cost is forbiddingly high, and the strength-to-weight ratio is not everything it's cracked...
...titanium struggled, stainless-steel alloys were being developed to approach it in heat resistance and strength-to-weight ratio. And titanium, at $18 a Ib. for the top alloys, cannot compete with the stronger stainless steels at $2 a Ib. The big hope for producers now is to lower the price radically, make titanium cheap enough for civilian uses...
...First Game belonged to a squat pro named Lawrence Peter Berra. All season Catcher Yogi has been floundering through a batting slump, never getting his average up much above his weight (192 Ibs.). But when he does hit, he still has his Yankee habit of making his hits count. His three-run homer in the eighth inning broke up the game, and the Yankees coasted home...