Word: presents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Physiology at the Medical School, and for 30 years, it provided a comfortable home for the Cannon family. Cannon House had been erected on the site of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, so when the Institute was built, Cannon House had to be transported across the street to its present location. This was done in 1930--with one horse. The house was hauled intact--chimney and all--and arrived in near perfect condition...
...American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
...full, round figure alerted Washington's amateur physicists. According to fairly dependable estimates, the Hiroshima bomb developed not more than 10% of the fission energy present in its nuclear explosive. Perfect efficiency (probably impossible) would therefore give about ten times as much power, certainly not 1,000 times as much. So, figured the amateur physicists, the talkative Senator must have meant a bomb made out of hydrogen. It is well known that the conversion of hydrogen into helium is the nuclear reaction that gives the sun its energy...
...have to be soundproofed . . . They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines, suntan and infrared lamps . . . What do you think of a future like that...
...containing letters from the 104 residents of the Hall, a copy of the Racine News, and an enlarged airplane view of the present dormitory quadrangle was turned over to the guest of honor by Janet Stewart '50, President of the Hall...