Word: earthwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief pooh-pooher of the theory last week was Astronomer Charles Clayton Wylie of the University of Iowa. His big objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...
...which sought to explain the most important chemical reaction on earth: photosynthesis. Theory-busters were a group of young biochemists, headed by Samuel Ruben, at the University of California. They have penetrated deeper than anyone so far into the mysterious process by which the sun's energy pouring earthward in the form of light is captured by chlorophyll and stored as carbohydrates, the basic food of animal life...
...m.p.h. the P39 was traveling faster (909 feet per second) than the muzzle velocity of a .45-calibre pistol bullet (802 feet). With bullet speed canceled out by plane speed, the projectile theoretically would indeed have dribbled, fallen earthward...
...four years Whiz Bang soared to a circulation of 425,000, brought Captain Billy close to $500,000 a year. Then its trajectory turned earthward again: by 1930 it was down to 150,000, in 1932 it folded. Meanwhile, with his profits Captain Billy started True Confessions, Screen Play, Modern Mechanix, Smokehouse Monthly, For Men, Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, various others. But Whiz Bang was his darling. Wherever he went while Whiz Bang lasted Captain Billy picked up ribald jokes, sent them back with his monthly editorial, Drippings from the Fawcett...