Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lota." At week's start, the President called a three-hour White House meeting of scientific and military advisers. They brought him up to date on Sputnik, with particular attention to the spectacular and ominous rocket-thrust required to push so heavy a satellite into outer space...
...about 20 m.p.h. This put it far ahead of the satellite proper, and made it spiral lower. There it could be getting hot from air friction, but it would probably last for at least two more weeks. Until Sputnik itself shows signs of dropping or speeding up, its date of fiery death cannot be predicted. Dr. John P. Hagen, chief of the U.S. satellite program, thinks that Sputnik will stay up there for more than a year...
...more astonishing is the evidence of a scientific society that produced a calendar (circa 353 B.C.), based on astronomical observations, which is considered 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...
Crimson runners like Norris, Schlaeppi, and Hildreth handsomely repaid McCurdy for his confidence in them by running their best races to date...
...sheriff served the citation on the woman's husband, a Massachusetts resident. After the required 21-day wait, the counsel requested a date for trial at Essex County Court. The date was assigned, and preparation of the case commenced...