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Word: distantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are mostly hydrogen. The source of their energy was known: it is chiefly a nuclear reaction that turns hydrogen into helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there was no one with enough knowledge imagination and daring to do the formidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: According to Hoyle | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...these copies to newsstands and subscribers as quickly as possible, our traffic department had rearranged all of its schedules. Copies from our printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were to go to the most distant points by special airlift. For example, copies for Spokane would leave the Chicago plant at 9 p.m., arrive in Spokane via Northwest Airlines plane at 9:44 a.m. Thursday, be sped by special truck to newsstand distribution centers, and go on sale at the newsstands before noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Letter. For a few seconds it was so quiet that the ding-ding of distant streetcars was clearly heard. Then hundreds of people were running toward Blair-Lee House. A panting skirmish line of photographers charged in. A hefty Secret Service man named Floyd Boring looked up, saw the President, who had been aroused from a nap, peering out an upstairs window in his underwear. Boring bawled: "Get back! Get back!" until the President stepped out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fanatics' Errand | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...rather unusual that a university located in a city distant from farming centers should have a distinctive program designed "to give a higher education to farm leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agricultural Program is Young, But Influential | 11/9/1950 | See Source »

...jobs of Little's office is to keep track of the very distant Harvard clubs in places like Japan and Germany. During the war there was even a temporary Harvard Club of Moscow which Conant addressed during a brief visit there on war work...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: University Retains Close Contact With Alumni; Reunions Bring Graduates Back To Cambridge | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

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