Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatic device took charge, poked a retractable antenna into the near vacuum, and told the instruments in the can to go on the air. The satellite transmitter took over and reported in code the readings of the satellite instruments, including such space esoterica as the impacts of primary cosmic rays and micrometeorites. It will take a long time to evaluate the data, but the instrument setup appears to have worked well...
...Cosmic Con. Close by Mobile, Ala., and a long way from Venus, the FBI found Harold running a sign-painting business, arrested him for absconding with the Modulator investors' money, gathered the facts and handed them over to a federal grand jury. From what the FBI had to say, it was clear that Harold's "cosmic con" signaled the decline of such classic earth-bound dodges as the Gypsy Swindle, Pigeon-Drop, Sick Old Man and Handkerchief Switch. But Spaceman Berney, who has a long record of convictions for embezzlement and fraud, said there had been a terrible...
...committee makes some concrete suggestions, including more religion courses for undergraduates, and offers a bit of undergraduate pomposity: "What is the meaning of existence? Is there a God? . . . These questions are weighty and cosmic . . ." In the end, the report gives the Cambridge campus its blessing: "Harvard is good for the faith of students...
...physics. The rules that govern such matters are complicated by relativity, but generally speaking, two particles that collide with energies of 15 billion electron volts each will have the smashing effect of a single particle with 540 billion electron volts. Such enormous energy is found only in rare cosmic rays, which can be studied undisturbed only at the inaccessible top of the atmosphere. If goodly numbers of these collisions can be caused in the laboratory, where they can be observed accurately, a new and horrendous kind of physics should be the result...
...longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...