Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing?" the scientists will ask. "What's the extent of high-energy radiation, the density of cosmic dust, the temperature, the quality of magnetic fields? What's the weather like?" And the answers, delivered by radio into machines on the rotating earth will push the dialogue onward, enabling man one day to launch himself into space...
Died. Marcel Schein, 57, one of the world's top cosmic-ray experts, who has sent balloons equipped with photographic plates 100,000 ft. up to record collision of the highest energies known to man; of a heart attack suffered while ice skating; in Chicago...
...Professor James A. Van Allen, who discovered them. The upper belt, which fluctuates wildly in intensity, is probably made of charged particles coming from the sun. The narrow inner belt, he suspects, contains protons and electrons that are decay products of neutrons created by the impact of cosmic rays hitting atoms in the atmosphere. It has not changed appreciably, he said, during the last two years...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions-that is by use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...