Word: commonest
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Last week Jan H. Oort of Leyden University Observatory told how Dutch astronomers have been probing the nucleus of the home galaxy with the powerful new tool of radio astronomy. The commonest element in the universe is hydrogen, which exists both in the stars and among them. When it is diffuse, it sends out radio waves 21 centimeters long that permit radio astronomers to spot clouds of hydrogen drifting among the stars. Their speed can be measured by a slight shortening (for approach) or lengthening (for recession) in the length of the radio waves that come from them...
...quick, deft motion perfected by much practice, Dr. Salk jabbed the needle in and pushed the plunger until 1 cc. had been injected. Most children let out an "Oh!" or "Ow!" and marched off, self-consciously proud, to another room where a nurse watched their reactions. One of the commonest: "Why. I didn't even...
...Announcing a substitute for tobacco. 63. Dr. William Kaufman told the American Psychiatric Association in Boston that the commonest and most-neglected illness in the U.S. today is: 1. Money-sickness...
...worker sample, Father Purcell found that 73% had more or less positive (though not equal) allegiance to both company and union. This great majority felt strongly that both were necessary to their welfare. They wanted company and union to get along. One of their commonest fears was that too much militancy on one side or the other would kill the egg-laying goose or break up the union...
...Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down the wrong road...