Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, says Dr. Fred Whipple, head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, it will only be visible while its elliptical orbit is carrying it over the U.S. at low altitude. When the high part of the orbit has shifted over the U.S. the satellite will be too faint to be seen without instruments...
...scientists are giving the top of the atmosphere a going-over from a dozen different angles. Cameras photograph the aurora (caused by particles from the sun), and other sensitive instruments measure the faint glow of the night sky. Radio experts keep track of the yearly, daily, hourly and minute-by-minute changes in the layers of electrified air that are so important to long-distance communication...
...Communist China fire only fitfully these days across the Formosa Strait. Southeast Asia's Communist guerrillas are in retreat. Red China, racked by agrarian unrest, by industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...calm and cloistered air of 19th century New England, the Sage of Concord tuned his inner ear to the faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where...
...best the Crimson can do is to secure second place in the Ivy soccer league by a win over Yale. The faint hope of first place died last week with league leader Princeton...