Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Alvin Rodecker, musing over the luncheon at Le Pavilion, turned cheerfully to his wife. "Holy cow!" he said. "That was expensive. But it was worth it. We're really celebrating." At that instant the plummeting dumbbell cracked his skull. Doctors performed emergency surgery, but Rodecker never regained consciousness, and 24 hours later he was dead...
...weather navigation system, scheduled for fully effective operation in 1962, which will benefit all nations on earth. The Transit navigation system is built on the fact that radio waves received from a satellite change their frequency as the satellite passes a ship or ground station. From that change, the instant when the satellite is closest can easily be determined. And since the satellite's orbit can be calculated far in advance, the almost-precise position of the ship receiving its signals can thereby be fixed. Last week a test of the system worked with extraordinary accuracy. Although the latest...
...remained tolerant and humane, and his chief fault was that he forgave anybody anything. He gained his political ends by letting himself be persuaded to do what he wished. "He had a sense of reality shared by no statesman of his time," says Pearson, "and knew in an instant what to do in any given situation (usually nothing) and how far he could...
...cannot be fired in salvo. Each must wait its turn-and during the wait an enemy hit may wipe out the base itself. All future U.S. missiles will be inertially guided. Since they will be self-contained, an unlimited number of them can climb into space at the same instant, each carrying instructions to fly to a different target, and each bearing the self-containing wherewithal for devastating accuracy...
...Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol for an estimated $4,000,000, not long before the discovery of antibiotics, which largely replaced...