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...Firmer Figure. To detect these few hits, a stream of helium will bubble through the tank, sweeping any argon 37 and carrying it to a charcoal filter. Then a special instrument will count the argon atoms by means of their radioactivity. Their number will be in direct proportion to the total number of neutrinos emitted...
First thing the neutrinos will measure is the temperature of the core. Astrophysicists now estimate it at 29 million degrees F., but the neutrino observatory will give a firmer figure because the nuclear reaction that produces solar neutrinos is favored by high temperature. If Dr. Davis counts more neutrinos than current formulas predict, astrophysicists will know that the temperature of the core is higher than they have guessed...
With the Bible's help Glueck has discovered more than 1,000 ancient sites in Transjordan and 500 more in the Negev. He has won fresh understanding of the age of Abraham and set a firmer date for the Exodus; he has clarified the socio-economic history of the Judean kings and filled out man's scanty knowledge of the once-thriving kingdom of the Nabataeans. He has located the long-lost copper mines of King Solomon and accurately spotted the site of Solomon's port on the Red Sea. Most important of all, he has found...
...said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party had put together an excellent combination [in its platform...
...Firmer Ground. He went on manfully, but again and again Labor's uproarious barracking silenced him for painful seconds at a time. He waded through the unfamiliar marshes of economics, finally reached firmer ground when he turned to foreign policy. Staring coldly at Wilson, who wants to abandon Britain's independent deterrent, Sir Alec declared that he intends to make this a central issue of the campaign. Once Britain renounces nuclear arms, he warned, "We could never go back into this business. The government means to retain nuclear forces under our own control," adding that without them...