Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing the burning rate of the fuel. As the cavity grows bigger, a valve will reduce the amount of gas passing through the whistle. The volume of sound will decrease, and so will the fuel's burning rate. If the valve is manipulated efficiently by some pressure-sensing instrument, it will keep the hot gas inside the rocket at constant pressure from take-off to burnout. Rocket walls can be made lighter, and the bird itself will fly higher...
Late in the program, Gibson set aside the banjo for the twelve-string guitar. This was unfortunate, as he has little of the technique required for playing this difficult instrument. But his smooth and extremely appealing voice carried the audience through the last few songs...
...Berkeley, Calif., one of the world's biggest, most complex and most dangerous scientific instruments was ready for full operation for the first time. Its name was a tongue twister: the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, designed and built by the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. In the next week or so, a beam of antiprotons from Berkeley's great 6 billion-volt Bevatron will pass through a pipe 200 ft. long, enter an odd-looking building and strike into a glass-topped metal bathtub containing 150 gal. of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through...
...speech timed to coincide with De Gaulle's arrival in Rome, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella declared with as much bluntness as he dared: "We shall continue to contribute to the North Atlantic alliance, the most effective instrument to discourage aggressors . . . We are happy to see continued good progress in our relations with the countries of the Middle East and North Africa...
Success has left Jonah with one big worry: that his lip will go. Blowing into a mute all night is a tough assignment, requires twice as much air power as playing an unmuted instrument. Long ago Jonah developed what fellow trumpeters call a "big-band lip," but he still finds the going tough if he does not carefully pace himself. "These people come in with requests," he says, "like I Can't Get Started, and I'm thinking about that F sharp on the end, and I think, 'Man, you can request, but this...