Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with some excellent teachers; perhaps none approximated the master, but most of them do not need his presence to function. Gropius, himself, did not consciously attempt to engulf the school with his beliefs; he encouraged his students to disagree with him, but many kept trying to emulate and become carbon copies of him. It was only a matter of time until the dean would begin to resent Gropius' presence, to envy his popularity, and attempt to pry him from his perch of preeminence...
Venus has an atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide and is always blanketed in brilliant white clouds. Most astronomers think its hidden surface is too hot to support the "carbon-cycle" life that exists on the earth. Mars is the best bet, but it is not too promising. U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, who died in 1916, spent 30 years studying the "canals" on Mars. He was convinced (and convinced a large public) that they were attempts by Martians to irrigate their arid planet with water from its polar snowcaps. Modern astronomers believe that Lowell was describing more than meets science...
...last one of them learns to extract energy from the sunlight, releasing oxygen into the air and absorbing carbon compounds. When these living forms-the first plants-have multiplied for a few million years, they create the oxygen-rich atmosphere that the earth now knows. Then oxygen-breathing plant-eaters evolve to devour the plants, and the full stream ot evolution is under...
...Yale student is in no danger of being left alone, so far as the University administration is concerned. The Dean's Office, while it does not meddle in all extra-curricular activities, takes a much closer interest in all Yale men than does its carbon copy in Cambridge. Strong pressure from the Dean's Office forced the abandonment of the traditional Derby Day outing two years ago when the annual spring-time bacchanal gave promise of becoming an annual spring-time orgy. Dean of the College William C. DeVane has recently chided his charges for sloppiness in class and cheating...
...succeeded in melting iron with the sun's rays. The one at Mont Louis, by far the biggest ever built, has reached a temperature of 2,500° C. (4,500° F.). Electric furnaces can also reach high temperatures, but experiments conducted in them are complicated by carbon from the electrodes. The sun's concentrated rays are pure heat; they can melt or vaporize a substance without contaminating...