Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest nation on earth. . . . But its actual greatness rests not on these single assets but on their combination. The greatness of the U. S. is the sum of a vast land area; a great, resourceful population of diverse origins and talents; ... a universal industry of cosmic dimensions; an enormous treasury of resources; a form of government that has stimulated the optimum development of all the components of the economy. It is the compounding of all these sources of greatness that makes the U. S. great...
...Carl David Anderson of Caltech announced the existence of an intermediate particle, apparently created about ten miles up in the air by cosmic ray impacts, and its existence was also vouched for by Street & Stevenson of Harvard. The particle was variously called the "X-particle," the "heavy electron"' (a misnomer, since it was not an electron), the "barytron" (also a misnomer, because it means "heavy particle," whereas the particle is lighter than a proton). A name meaning "intermediate particle" was clearly in order, and so practically all U. S. physicists now call it the "mesotron" or "meson...
...Like a cosmic dentist's drill suddenly withdrawn, the quake stopped. Turks scrambled to their still-trembling feet. Some returned to what was left of their homes to stare or scrabble for loved ones. Those who remembered the repetitious earthquake of April 1938 stayed in the fields. Others prostrated themselves.before their prostrate mosques, calling on Allah. Hardly had they thanked their God for sparing them when a new shock came. Between two and five that morning the earth quaked four terrible times. When it was all over...