Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptists and other evangelical sects, says Izvestia, "mislead people with high-flown words, and try to divert them from industrious life, from the enlightened happenings of our great era. They try to disrupt Soviet morality...
...that sunlight during its journey would not scorch one side while the other side froze and upset the delicate mechanism inside. Then, having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number...
...lava. They must have been formed rather late in the moon's history, because few meteor craters pit their surfaces. Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that the seas were made by the impact of asteroids up to 90 miles in diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark lava welled up in the holes, and is visible there today. Kuiper thinks that the shock of the last big asteroid, which dug the sea called Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains), may have...
...Chamberlain was born in San Francisco, is on leave this school season to lecture at Harvard. Dr. Segre, an associate of the great Enrico Fermi, was born in Tivoli, Italy. Like Fermi, he came to the U.S. before World War II because of disgust with Italian Fascism. Both he and Dr. Chamberlain worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and Chamberlain helped explode the first test bomb at Alamogordo...
Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine on a hunting excursion...