Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally supposed to have a magnetic field more powerful than that of the earth. The scientific reasoning: the lines in the sun's spectrum seem to show the "Zeeman effect," splitting in two like the lines in a laboratory light source affected by magnetism. But Dr. Martin A. Pomerantz of the Bartol Foundation had long doubted the sun's magnetic field. Last summer he set out to disprove the theory by the apparently far-fetched method of catching cosmic rays with sounding balloons near the earth's north magnetic pole...
When a cosmic ray (an electrically charged particle from outer space) approaches the earth, it is deflected by the earth's magnetic field. If it is speeding fast enough, it slams through this interference and plunges into the atmosphere. The most powerful particles, whose speed gives them an energy of 14 billion electron-volts, can reach the earth at the equator, where the magnetism is strongest. At the latitude of Philadelphia, two billion volts is enough...
...year of confusion and crisis, Sir Stafford Cripps emerges as the man who, for better or worse, did more than any other person to dislocate the economy of a major portion of the earth...
...audience of about 500 heard MacLeish attack the idea "poets never make anything happen." Poetry, he said, is a means that shows an individual himself. The earth today is troubled, MacLeish commented, by the "plight of the individual in an institutionalized world...
...Jupiter, and whenever the conversation got lively she was apt to interrupt with, "Would you mind, all of you, finishing your soup before it's cold?" or "Don't forget that the domestics have their rights. They wish to remove the dishes. . ." When Venus dropped down to earth with Mars, the whole godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars...