Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEATING. When microwaves are focused into a narrow beam and directed at substances such as water, organic solvents and salt solutions, they cause them to heat almost instantaneously. Because the molecules of these substances are polarized-containing an uneven distribution of positive and negative charges-they align themselves with the direction of an electric field. Microwave fields reverse themselves rapidly; to keep up with them, the polarized molecules must oscillate constantly. This oscillation produces a rise in temperature. In a microwave oven, for example, the electric field completely permeates a potato, instantly heating the moisture in its center as well...
...Though its name comes from asparagus, it is found in many plants and animals. Both asparagine and asparaginase come in two forms, which are distinguished by whether their crystals make a beam of light rotate to the right (dextro, abbreviated to the letter D) or the left (levo, or L). The levo forms are by far the more abundant...
Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...
...fiscal health, cigarette makers have long been hedging their futures by tracking down merger opportunities. Lately, the trail has led to the package store. Liggett & Myers last year took over the U.S. importer of J & B Scotch whisky. American Tobacco bought nearly all of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. last fall, and will soon purchase control of the Buckingham Corp., importer of Cutty Sark Scotch. When its turn came, P. Lorillard Co. decided to try a little tippling...
...worth of books, most of them containing reprints from the magazine. At present, Playboy's staff is moving into larger quarters in Chicago's venerable Palmolive Building, leased for 63 years for $2,700,000. Thanks to eager press-agents, the building's famed beacon, whose beam can be seen 500 miles away, has been renamed the Bunny Beacon...