Word: switching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...steaming crust of the lava pool. Using compressed air as a coolant, they drilled a 3½-in. hole into the crust at the tedious rate of 1½ ft. every eight hours. The 1,652° heat damaged the diamond bits and jammed pipe threads, forcing a switch to powdered graphite as a lubricant. At nearly 17 ft., Rawson and Higgins added water to the compressed air, found that this speeded their drilling up to the rate of a foot an hour. Finally, at 19½ ft. the bit sank into molten lava after passing through temperatures as high...
Explaining that an oral test provides more flexibility in determining a student's ability than a written hour exam. Baer pointed out that if a "student is stuck in one particular area, you can easily switch to another where he may be more proficient...
Cause of the reluctant U.S. switch was a clever Kremlin ploy. Returning from a Communist-subsidized trip to Moscow 18 months ago, a Bolivian professor brought news that the Soviets would be pleased to provide Bolivia with a smelter to refine its own tin ore. Last September Khrushchev buttonholed a Bolivian diplomat at a Manhattan cocktail party to make the offer again, and the pressure became too great for Bolivia to refuse...
Behind the switch from fact to fiction is one of Lederer's pet theories on writing: "When you write, you want to communicate with as many people as possible. In this case, that meant a novel...
...white Lincoln moved slowly through Georgetown's narrow streets, picked up speed as it headed downtown toward the Capitol. In the back seat President-elect Jack Kennedy fiddled with the electric window switch, then sat back and. as if thinking aloud, discussed the vast difficulties of forming a new U.S. Administration. "It's tough to find the kind of people we want," he said, "but we're coming along...