Word: helter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light flashed last week on a screen. But scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill. N.J. are sure their new gadget, called a maser. from which the light came, will lead to astonishing things. The waves of red light moved exactly in step; other light is helter-skelter. The waves kept to the same razor-edged frequency; other light is a mixture of frequencies. They formed a slender pencil beam that hardly spread out at all. If they had marched to the moon-240,000 miles-they would have covered less than one twenty-fifth of its face...
...Baptist ministers have changed, so have their places of worship. Many Baptist churches still show their recent mission origins, having grown up helter-skelter around meeting halls, stores or garages. But more and more churches are apt to be modern, functional and air-conditioned. Washington's First Baptist Church is not the only Southern Baptist church that looks almost like a cathedral...
...centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...