Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although it has not yet been decided exactly what scientific equipment will be placed inside the spheres (about twice the size of a basketball), it is sure to return valuable information about the upper atmosphere, cosmic rays, dust-type meteors, ultraviolet rays, and the precise shape of the Earth...
...meant by promising "to oppose" the Russian volunteers, a promise that Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. reiterated before the U.N. General Assembly later in the week. But no one in Washington thought that this quiet victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could sweep across Western Europe-and punctuated by a new high-level A-bomb test...
...public realizes, will take a much less part in the British government. Next spring or summer, Red China will begin its long-awaited attack on Quemoy and Matsu. The Matsus will be captured by the Chinese. A slump is due for midyear. However, I predict the Eisenhower Administration will dust off various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will not run again. On the Democratic side, Adlai Stevenson will get the nomination; but Harry Truman...
...probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted out of the dust, and a bronze belt proved just long enough to fit a child about four years...
...stunned when the University decided to give up the observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, for this station was essential to his research on the Milky Way. His response was to enter the new field of radio astronomy, in which he became a world authority with discoveries about interstellar dust that suggested important insights into the birth of stars...