Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell flaunted its great depth Saturday to shatter the varsity track team's hopes for an undefeated outdoor season. The Big Red took eight firsts and eight seconds in the 16 events to win a triangular meet at Ithaca, 79 5/6 to the Crimson's 56 11/12. Penn, a distant third, collected 36 1/4 points...
With its 60 foot paraboloid antenna and intricate electronic recording equipment, the telescope will serve to more accurately map the most distant sections of our galaxy. In a symposium at the Observatory, various scientists will discuss some of the recent achievements in radio astronomy and speculate on what may be uncovered by the new equipment...
Representatives from over 25 colleges, ranging from nearby Emmanuel (50) and M.I.T. (27) to distant Vassar (35) and Bennington (6), will add to the predominantly University atmosphere, David Smith '58, chairman of the Convention Committee, said last night...
...streets, to provide a sweeping, unbroken expanse of lawn (and possibly a fountain) in place of St. Paul's present traffic-cluttered southeast churchyard; 3) a plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series of interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage) to give partial views of the cathedral; 5) moving London's Temple Bar, symbol of the City's independence, where, ceremonially, even the monarch...
...forest-belt planting. His notions about crop rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...