Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happening to the sun came early in the afternoon of the ninth, when an observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...
Square Deal. In Boulder, Colo., the coordinator of scholarships at the University of Colorado admitted that it is almost impossible to find students qualified for the Herrick Loan Fund, which can go only to recipients who do not drink, smoke or swear...
Behind those pronouncements lie 45 years of uninterrupted heavy thinking. Walter Lippmann never stops thinking, not even when scrambling around the Maine rocks with Helen at their summer place near Bar Harbor. "Walter," fretted his wife one day as he tripped over a boulder, "look. Don't think." For Lippmann, this is the idlest advice. He cannot help thinking. Where other journalists run after the news, Lippmann prefers to ponder...
...there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism can be preconditioned for the peculiar conditions and hazards of space travel...
ELIZABETH PRICHARD TURNER Boulder, Colo...