Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When people talk about evangelism, they talk about Ghana or some faraway place, not the bar across the street...
...Tiger Balm. More and more, U.S. firms are using free travel as a sales incentive; this year 8,000 compa nies are sending crackerjack salesmen to such faraway places as Venice (RCA) or Pago Pago (Ford). Nobody does it as grandly as Gibson. The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them. Each dealer is furnished with a 40-coupon book of tickets entitling him to everything from a pot of Oriental welcoming tea on arrival...
...Cameron, the most striking recent finding is that the nerve cell is not, as had been thought, a fixed and static structure, but one that continually forms new connections and breaks up old ones while producing biochemical substances to regulate faraway organs. In the hope of stimulating this neuronal activity, he tried feeding ribonucleic acid (RNA) from yeast to memory-deficient patients in Montreal (TIME, May 18, 1962). After he moved to Albany, he cast around for a better drug and hit upon Cylert, a combination of pemoline (marketed in Europe as a stimulant since 1956) and magnesium hydroxide...
According to Olber, Layzer said yesterday, the light produced by faraway stars should make the night sky intensely bright and hot. Obler reached this conclusion after observing a "shell" of stars at a given distance from the earth. While the brightness of the stars will diminish with the square of their distance, Layzer said. The area of the shell--and thus the number of stars on it--will go up it the same rate...
...soft smile and a lift of the chin transformed her from Gauguinesque to Egyptian. Far more than the sum of her long (5 ft. 10 in.), model-spindly parts (31-21½-36), she is a creature of contrasts-one minute so phisticated, the next faunlike, now exotic and faraway, now a gamine from around the corner...