Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more accurate than the Julian calendar that was devised in 46 B.C. The Mayans reckoned time from a zero date beginning, according to one scientist, with Oct. 15, 3375 B.C. Their month (urinal) lasted 20 days; a year (tun) 18 months, or 360 days,' which was completed (to correspond more accurately to the solar year) by adding five so-called "unlucky days." Thus they had a fixed calendar year of 365 days. It was nearly six hours shorter than the true year, so they worked out a system of correction (in the 6th or 7th century) that...
Colliding Galaxies. One of the most interesting problems for the telescope is the thousands of "radio stars": small patches of the sky that are sources of powerful Yadio waves but which seldom correspond with any object visible to optical telescopes. A clue to what these mysterious "stars" may be was given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars...
...Educational Policy Committee: "We want to make the student able to generate his own projects and studies. We think that by senior year he should be entirely on his own and off campus, so he can't see the profs. And we don't intend to correspond with...
...technique one night after hearing a flutist friend give a fine recital. Laderman returned home so "full of flute" that he sat up all night composing. As he wrote, he began to visualize dance images. Rather than lose them, he improvised dance notations above the musical staff to correspond with the flute solo. Next morning he found that the notations accurately recalled the dance images. He took the score, now titled Duet for Flute and Dancer, to Dancer-Choreographer Jean Erdman, asked that she choreograph...
...late April or May, after the cards are in, students will confer with potential thesis advisers so that they will have the opportunity to pick out definite topics this term, and so that they will have someone with whom to correspond about their work during the summer...