Word: circulares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass from there to the Rules Committee, and then to the Senate floor. A hearing before the Constitutional Committee, and another in open forum have pushed Senate Bill 1820 no nearer Rules. Once there it will meet stiff opposition, for, in the past, Rules has served as a gigantic circular file for anti-subversive legislation. Although its chance of passing is unpredictable, there is no doubt about its effects...
...from Alaska. Back of double doors in another lab, a circular saw slices paper-thin samples from huge ice crystals chopped from Alaska's Mendenhall glacier. In still other labs, at even colder temperatures (down to -77° F.), other work is getting under way: food preservation, sewage disposal, all the endless problems of human survival in the cold...
...Perryopolis, Pa. (pop. 1,500), an unsung & forgotten hamlet in the coal fields 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. George Washington himself bought land on the town's present site back in 1770, and built a grist mill near by. According to local legend, he also suggested the circular-street plan upon which the village is built, although he sold out (1,643 acres for $4,000) long before 1814, when Perryopolis, named for Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, was actually begun...
...circular area of 300 square miles has a radius of 9.8 miles...
...crew must make a "power maneuver." They observe the stars to fix their position; then, by spinning three little flywheels, they point their rockets in the right direction and turn on the power for 15 seconds. If all goes well, the ship will move into a circular orbit, speeding around the earth at 15,840 m.p.h. Unless brought down deliberately, it will circle there forever...