Word: earth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestling dates back to earliest civilization. It is the one sport which never disappeared entirely from the earth and, along with running and jumping, it was the most natural form of exercise because it involved on equipment and provided an invigorating means of building muscles and developing health...
...week said: "The world must be convinced of American strength . . . The U.S. has today perhaps the mightiest mission in history. In a human and historic sense America has the duty-if you don't mind my sounding poetic-to see that the light never goes out on our earth ... I want to see a united Europe. Only then can my country be free. To do that, we need the help of the best Europeans of all-the Americans...
...central theme of "No Exit" is expressed by one of the characters: "Hell is other people." Three people, newly-arrived in Hell, find that they must spend eternity in each other's presence. Though they were not acquainted on earth, they soon perceive that being put together in one sealed room was no chance occurrence-each by his mere presence must forever torture the other...
...Pomerantz figured that near the north magnetic pole in northeastern Canada the earth's magnetic field is so feeble that even the most sluggish rays should make the grade. He also reasoned that if he could find rays so feeble that they could not theoretically get through the supposed magnetic field of the sun, he would have proved that such a field does not exist...
With the backing of the National Geographic Society and the help of the Defense Research Board of Canada, Dr. Pomerantz launched high-flying balloons from Churchill on Hudson Bay. At this point of feeble earth magnetism, Geiger counters attached to the balloons found what Dr. Pomerantz was looking for: cosmic rays with only 100 million volts of energy. Such rays would be much too feeble to reach the earth from outer space if they had to break through the magnetic field attributed to the sun. Therefore, Dr. Pomerantz announced last week, the sun must be bare of permanent magnetism...