Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio map of the sky. Strong broadcasts, he found, come from the Milky Way (the crowded inner section of the galaxy or star-cloud in which the sun is one star). Most galaxies have a dense central nucleus, but the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy (if one exists) is hidden by clouds of dust which block its light. . Reber turned his radio telescope on the place where the nucleus ought to be, and got a "bulge" of powerful radio energy. The nucleus does exist, he concluded, and is sending radio waves right on through the dust...
...Price, regional education director of the Veterans Administration, doesn't think so. Said he in Los Angeles last week: "Many veterans choose courses that will be of no vocational benefit. Others continue to enter certain glamor courses where employment opportunities are either poor or do not exist [e.g., flying, television, plastics]. It seems a downright shame to see them frittering away their valuable benefits." The trouble, said Price, lies with state agencies which authorize frivolous courses which the Veterans Administration is bound to approve...
...movies richest in spirit and vitality came from Italy. By comparison, even the best British films were academic and genteel (Britain's best was, significantly, an adaptation of a literary classic). French films in general were ultra-civilized but low in vigor. Russia had all but ceased to exist as a source of movie interest, except to Russophiles; Germany was just beginning to stir...
...Sludged Blood" [TIME, Nov. 24]: if Physiologist Knisely will feed his human experiment subjects a diet of fresh raw fruit -nothing else-the sludge spots (in the blood) which he finds so mysterious will disappear and no infections will exist...
...next March elections could be approached confidently because the bloc alliance with the Socialists is stronger than ever-it didn't even exist at the last national elections...