Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longevity: "There is a great lesson in this for all of us. But I'm damned if I know what it is." Said New York's quicktempered Daily News, which employs Sullivan as a Broadway columnist: "The celebration was cattily clawed over and damned with faint praise by an alleged television and radio critic calling himself Crosby or Crosley or something...
...world's biggest scientific instrument, and probably its biggest precision mechanism, is the giant radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. Demonstrated to the press last week, it is almost finished and will go into action this summer, reaching into the depths of the universe for faint whispers of radio information...
...Faint Whisper. The telescope is the baby of Dr. Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, professor of radio astronomy at the University of Manchester. It was designed by Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...
...point in Britain, whose frequently leaden skies handicap optical telescopes. It is still a young science, with surprises coming thick and fast. A vast assortment of radio waves filters down from the sky. Some of the waves come from nearby planets and the sun. Others come from patches of faintly luminous gas, or from the clouds of cold hydrogen drifting among the stars. The new telescope is fitted for recording all these faint whispers on wave lengths from ten centimeters to about 20 meters. Since its great area allows it to gather much more radio energy than small rivals...
Smooth Glide. After three tense hours there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite...