Word: developing
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Last week Physicist Edward Teller, the dour genius who led the U.S. in its race to develop the H-bomb ahead of the Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors...
...President uses conversations to develop his own ideas...
Anthony G. Oettinger, associate professor of Applied Mathematics and head of the faculty committee in charge of the Center, said that its major aim "will be to develop new and advanced computing theory and to open up new fields of application." It is hoped that the Center's facilities will benefit research groups both within and outside of the University, he said...
...Bornheimer, and pivot man Merie McClung. Augustine, who has been kept off the floor by a broken foot, may be able to play at full speed by the end of the month, but in the interim the team has missed both his teaching skills and the opportunity to develop coordination with him in there...
...obvious pious wish to make now is that the science student develop the channels of communication with humanists of the system of education. But the fact is, that without the co-operation of humanities students he cannot develop such channels; for to establish a sophisticated language shared by scientists and humanists is to educate both. Besides, it remains to be shown that our pious wish is desirable in whatever value system the scientist accepts. To implement that wish requires effort, at least, and more likely, something close to divine inspiration. The will to try, and divine inspiration, like the operational...