Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor, the Atomic Energy Commission, which have kept a close watch on employees, are morally certain that there have been only two deaths from radioactivity in the history of the project: those of Physicists Louis A. Slotin and Harry K. Daghlian, who died from accidental exposure to a powerful beam of neutrons and gamma rays last year (TIME, June...
...safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
Army and Navy reconnaissance planes from Oahu kept Hawaiian yachting fans posted as the boats approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours...
...sponsor of the pseudo-pacifist, Communist-front "Yanks Are Not Coming Committee." Then, when Russia was attacked, he turned into what he called "a fighting liberal." After the war, as U.S.Soviet friendship cooled, some Unitarians thought that the Christian Register was flying on Moscow's beam...
With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected...