Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly. They accelerate gradually, keeping their speed fairly low while still in the atmosphere, then spurting quickly. If a rocket is moving 24,000 m.p.h. when it is 300 miles above the surface, it will escape from the earth's gravitation. When the Russian Lunik launchers, watching their bird with Doppler (speed-measuring) radios, saw it pass the critical speed, they knew it would never return to earth. A lesser speed than escape velocity sets a satellite revolving around the earth just free of the atmosphere. A satellite can be compared to a chip or leaf circling around...
Ramsay MacDonald: "Curious bird. He had a kind of Highland aloofness. You never quite knew where he was. Always rather apt to impress on you the whole burden of the world...
Ever since the Russians launched their Sputnik III on May 15, 1958, rocket experts have known that they had the potential ability to toss a good-sized bird out of the earth's gravitational field. To put a satellite on a nearby orbit around the earth takes only about 25% less speed than the escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.) that will free it from the earth. All the Russians needed to do was to increase slightly the power of Sputnik Ill's launching rockets or to reduce its final weight. U.S. failure to reach the moon was mainly...
...Soncor Bird. Indian children, when they are not worm hunting, turn out willingly for school, before long learn to write respectable essays. One of them: "I am the soncor bird. I live in the forest where there are no people. I eat the pasarochllom seed. Wherever I see the pasarochllom seed, that is the thing I will eat a lot of. My coat appears like a cloud. My coat is white dotted like the clouds. My children appear like the sky. I live with my children in the forest. My children are very much crybabies if their mother leaves them...
...stockholders who saw their stock rise from $345 to $395 in the over-the-counter market when the merger news was announced (one share of Morgan for 4.4 of Morgan Guaranty). Under able Chairman Alexander, the bank has made no bones about its competitiveness, trains young men nicknamed "bird dogs" to go out and hunt for business. For the Guaranty Trust, one of the impelling reasons for the merger was to get Morgan's bright young executives...