Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Walkiire: Tietjen and Knapperts-busch ended in a dead heat for the speed record for the first act. Time: one hour, five minutes. In the third act, Knapperts-busch displayed a strong kick at the finish, beating Tietjen by one minute...
...Meistersinger: The third act has served as a classic test for conducting speed, and no one has ever matched the spectacular time of one hour and 54 minutes registered by Fritz Busch...
...four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening scientific news...
Cosmic rays have long been a fascinating and controversial subject among scientists. It is generally agreed that most low-speed cosmic rays are particles shot out of the sun, but that those with higher energy must come from somewhere else. The late Enrico Fermi thought they came from interstellar magnetic fields which gradually speed up protons and other charged particles moving between the stars of the Milky Way galaxy (the earth itself is a smallish satellite to one of the smaller stars in this galaxy). But this theory could not account for rays whose energy is above a critical limit...
...Drosophila, can stay aloft for five hours at a stretch, but it beats its wings 250 times per second, and it burns up 10% of its body weight during an hour's flight-proportionately as much fuel as a 600 m.p.h. jet airliner. Drosophila's cruising speed: 2-3 m.p.h...