Word: closer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion as an embarrassing subject. As the result of such tiptoeing, "many Jews know only a grotesque caricature of Christianity, compounded of a three-headed divinity, salvation by being dipped in blood, a slighting of rationality and ethics, and a dependence on gross wonders." As Jews and Christians become closer friends, Chairman Sweazey hopes, "Christ will become better known and loved on both sides...
Channel II came from a scintillation counter sensitive to radiation from one direction. Each wave records 2,048 particles above a certain energy level. Because the satellite is tumbling, the waves are spaced at varying intervals-closer together when the instrument points into the radiation, further apart when it turns away. Thus this channel tells both the radiation's strength and directional character, also indicates the rate of tumble, and the satellite's attitude at any given moment...
Against Brown, the Crimson came even closer to playing the kind of lacrosse it did on its successful spring trip. The ever-improving Stone played well in the nets, the defense finally turned in a praiseworthy performance, and the attackmen and midfielders pressed the Bruins hard and shot accurately...
Shackleton never got closer than 60 miles to his proposed beachhead. Clamped in the vise of a null ice pack for ten months, Endurance drifted 1,000 miles northward off the Palmer Peninsula. Finally the party abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious...
...addition, each room will be equipped with a new weather-stripped door with a built-in "automatic door-closer." Sound-proofed walls and recessed bookshelves are also among the projected improvements...