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Word: corrects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elliptical orbits, rising considerably higher above the earth on one side than on the other. Some of the lopsided orbits have been intentional, to give information about thick layers of space. Others, although unwanted, were unavoidable. Once the original rockets had burned out, there was no power available to correct the orbit. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced development of a rocket engine that can fire a second time, enabling ground controllers or an automatic mechanism to kick a straying satellite into a circular orbit by picking the moment to set off the second blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Second Push | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...only definite statement on the outcome of preliminary work came from the British scientists, who have observed a shift equal to 96 per cent of the Einstein prediction. The experimental error predicted odds of 60 to 1 that Einstein was correct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results Further Test of General Relativity Theory | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...closest friends and the lengthening roll of classmates dying in World War I stirred him deeply. He was struck when a fellow cleric was refused an army chaplaincy on being asked what he would do for a dying man and answering "Hear his confession and give him absolution." The correct military answer was: "Give him a cigarette and take any last message he may have for his family." In the spring of 1915 Knox drew up 31 propositions pro and con his submitting to the Church of Rome, but it was not until September 1917 that the pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life & Death of a Monsignor | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...Peace can never be won by means outside ourselves; it can only come through the inner means of correct understanding of God," she explained. This correct understanding of God leads to an acknowledgement of the present perfection of both God and man, which in turn leads us to deny the existence of the ungodly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Koch-Meisen Calls Knowledge, Prayer Means to End War | 1/15/1960 | See Source »

...Repeal of 1001 (f), as the group will be known, was organized partially in response to statements from congressmen claiming a lack of any students interest in the issue. An office set up by the committee will inform students how their Congressmen voted and urge letter-writing to correct the impression of apathy...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Student-Faculty Group Plans to Fight Affidavit | 1/13/1960 | See Source »

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