Word: earth
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After explaining the methods scientists used to determine the masses of the Earth, sun, Milky Way Galaxy and galactic clusters, Field summed his speech up by saying, "to put it very simply, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what the mass of the universe...
Bullard, who was knighted in 1953, pioneered study of the earth's magnetism and heat flow through...
...schools, shops, theaters, recreation halls and a hospital-but no church. The workers wanted one. After the anti-regime riots of 1956, they won grudging permission from the state to build a church, and then had to struggle with bureaucratic obstructions for eleven years before the first spadeful of earth was even turned. Not until 1977 was the massive, modernistic church, standing at the junction of Karl Marx and Great Proletarian avenues, finally ready to be consecrated. Cracow's Karol Cardinal Wojtyia triumphantly blessed its opening...
Anderson added that he disagrees with plans to cut back on planetary work because there is a "very strong link" between it and our understanding of the Earth's atmosphere...
James M. Anderson, a teaching fellow in biology said yesterday the new policy will have a mixed impact on atmospheric research, his specialty. Funds for experiments investigating the Earth's atmosphere would probably be boosted, he said, while some programs designed to study the atmospheres of other planets, particularly Venus, Mars and Jupiter, are now in "greater jeopardy...