Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Whose Asian cousin, the dugong, is believed to have inspired ancient sailors to spin the first mermaid yarns...
...Spin a Little Faster...
Defining structure as the model each of us builds of our knowledge, Bruner said, "We put together everything we know in the way that we think the world operates. Then we spin it just a little faster than the world goes and we can make predictions. The purpose of education is to teach a person the techniques of building and using these models...
...sign up Danny Kaye for a three-year TV contract which, to the discomfort of admen, did not have an option to drop Kaye if the first shows were unsuccessful. (Kaye's first show proved a qualified critical success.) Donner also likes to give G.M. cars a rough spin on the proving grounds, insisted that a wooden curb be built so that testers of G.M.'s compacts would know if customers could get in and out easily...
...serious because their effectiveness in separating U-235 rises with the fourth power of the speed of the rotor, i.e., doubling the speed would multiply the efficiency by 16. Better materials and construction methods have recently increased the speed to at least 40,000 r.p.m. Up-to-date centrifuges spin in a near vacuum, and they have complicated heating devices to make the gas circulate inside them in a way that multiplies their efficiency...