Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern-technology, he predicted, will soon make the lectures and libraries of any university available to students across the country. At the same time, "with the sprouting of subspecialities from old root disciplines, no university can now contain the full growth of the tree of knowledge...
...vestibule of the inner ear are two tough capsules called the utricle (from the Latin for a little womb) and the saccule (a little bag). These contain a gelatinous material in which are suspended crystals of a chalky substance composed mainly of calcium carbonate, no bigger than grains of fine sand. In the space age, physiologists are learning much more about these otoliths (ear stones), which respond to forces of gravity or acceleration. Now otolith mechanisms are known to have an im portant function. The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man's position or posture is changing...
...They contain less rubber, have thinner treads and inner cores of lower-grade material, and are generally built to less demanding specifications. Are the cheapies safe? The tire manufacturers insist that they are-so long as they are used only for driving about town at moderate speeds and not on constant or long highway trips. Alabama's Democratic Congressman Kenneth Roberts, who is sponsoring the tire bill in Congress, is afraid that most tire buyers do not know this. He wants a law that will make companies say why a cheapie is so cheap...
...request too hastily. He recalled his ambassador to Washington, renewed old charges that the CIA was behind a clandestine radio operated by his domestic opposition. He was also still convinced that when he received a "present" from an unknown donor in 1959 and the box turned out to contain a bomb, the CIA was to blame...
First, Kennedy said, the Library will contain an extensive film collection. The three television networks, local communities, and others are being encouraged to donate to what will be a complete pictorial record of the President's career...