Word: containedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the beginning of time, the universe almost certainly contained many elements heavier than uranium, the heaviest element that exists naturally on earth. Gradually these "transuranium" elements disappeared, decomposing by radioactive decay into lighter and more stable elements. During the past few decades, however, at least eleven transuranium elements and...
Defining Limits. The evening contained only two recognizable musical moments. At one point, the hornist inexplicably quoted a swatch of Tchaikov sky's Symphony No. 5, and the possibly unhinged trombonist retired to an adjoining terrace to toot 76 Trombones.
Auspicious Times. Other experts are attempting to discover the meaning of the twelve creatures bordering the manuscript. Among them are antlered "gods" with long, protruding tongues, which bear a marked resemblance to supernatural creatures appearing in South American art of roughly the same era. "This is the first evidence we...
As one result, U.S. public support for the U.N. rose sharply: from 50% of the people in 1953, according to one poll, to 74% in 1955. Lodge was a master dramatist. After the U-2 flap in 1960, for example, he memorably countered holier-than-thou Soviet rhetoric by revealing...
Across Iowa's corn country, huge machines with anteater snouts gulp the ears off 8-ft.-high cornstalks, an instant later spit golden kernels into self-contained bins. In California, packing machines out in the fields seal freshly picked lettuce heads in plastic, drop them into cardboard boxes, then...