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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Primordial Particle | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

His opponent--reputed to be one of the most "nego" products of Exeter--has the dubious advantage of glibness. He probably gave even less though to his article than his antagonist. To him all public school boys are doomed to intense concentration in academic life, aimed solely at getting a...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Button-Down Boobery | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

To develop and maintain an environment on a college campus that will encourage independence rather than dependence, curiosity rather than passive acceptance, high standards of thought and conduct instead of "getting by" and keeping out of trouble--one which takes account of whatever is known about the relationship between personality...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Farnsworth Eulogizes Mental Health Movement, But Suggests Nothing New | 12/14/1957 | See Source »

One of the toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, protective suits are essential. Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Semi-Space Suit | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Unless something goes wrong, the suit stays relaxed, but if the cabin loses its pressure at, say, 150,000 ft., an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the suit from the airplane's supply. The inner suit blows up like a man-shaped balloon. Complicated pressure-and temperature-regulating gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Semi-Space Suit | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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