Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ At Evanston, 111., Michigan, beaten by Army a fortnight ago after
an unbroken string of 25 victories, was upset again, 21-20, by
in-and-out Northwestern.
Such "catastrophic" explanations of the solar system made fair sense scientifically, and got grateful support from nonscientific people who preferred to believe that man and his earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe...
Three times in the past five years, Presbrey has "just been riding by" in a streetcar when million-dollar fires broke out in the sprawling industrial area known as the Midway, between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1945, while watching a St. Paul movie one evening, Presbrey stirred nervously in...
An unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake...
The big job was to find just how to vary the current. To make the fish wiggle properly, he discovered, the intensity of the current must rise suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed...