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Word: astro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aeronautics and Space Administration named six more-and a couple of them can't even fly. Four of the new men are scientists with Ph.D.s; the other two are physicians. NASA hopes to utilize their scientific skills after manned flights to the moon become an accomplished fact.*The astro-scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Astro-Scientists | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Well, they can't in the Astrodome either - in daytime, anyway. Last week its resident tenants, the Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Daymares in the Dome | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...sciences come back strong now with new Bio. 115, Astro. 1 ("Stars"), Chem. 1 ("Black Magic") and Chem. 11 ("Black Magic for Magicians...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/23/1963 | See Source »

...spite of their horror of early morning classes, many students slight the afternoon's varied opportunities. If they knew of it, few would want to miss Astro. 233, "Applications of Stellar Spectroscopy," by Professor Payne-Gaposchkin, especially since Astro. 233 is to be omitted in 1964-65 and apparently has no prerequisites...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/23/1963 | See Source »

Fred L. Whipple, professor of astronomy and director of the Smithsonian Astro - physical Obervatory, has been chosen by President Kennedy to receive the nation's highest award for distinguished civilian Federal service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomer Whipple Will Receive Federal Civilian Service Award | 6/3/1963 | See Source »

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