Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannibals with Manners. Five years ago Bishop Arkfeld launched his most ambitious experiment by founding the Sisters of the Rosary of Wewak. Today the roster includes 30 native sisters and novices (average age: 21) whose royal blue habits and white headdresses do not conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal...
NASA and several engine makers have high hopes for Acoustica's experiment. But why talk about it? One good reason is that as early as 1952 Russian Physicist P. M. Kubanski started publishing scientific papers about the effect of sound waves on heat transfer. There is at least a...
Down to Cents. The changing liberal of 1959 is already distinguishable from his New Deal daddy by the fact that he is not a big spender. He keeps a careful dollars-and-cents account of his own appropriations record to show the folks at home, and casts a watchful eye...
But the major discovery of postwar oceanographers was that huge currents flow far below the surface; often these currents move faster than their surface counterparts. One such discovery came in 1951, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a ship west of the Galapagos Islands to experiment with a...
Another risky experiment with the oceans may have already been tried inadvertently. The temperature of the earth's surface depends to a considerable extent on the atmosphere's small content of carbon dioxide (about .03%), which permits short-wave sunlight to pass but impedes the escape of longer...