Word: hering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wind v. Gas. Such frivolities are often viewed with mixed feelings by the half a million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply...
Wholeness might not seem the first quality to ascribe to Leonardo, since he left most of his work unfinished. In fact, when Leo X commissioned him to paint a picture. Leonardo at once set to work distilling herbs for the varnish, and Leo complained that the painter would accomplish "nothing...
They were treading water about 50 yds. offshore when Al Kogler cried out. "I turned around," Shirley said later, "and saw this big grey thing flap up into the air. I don't know if it was a fin or a tail. I knew it was some kind of...
Oysters à Leclerc. Last September authorities in Grenoble (pop. 140,000) invited Benefactor Leclerc to open a store there to force down food prices, among the highest in France. Within a month the Leclerc store was doing a monthly business of $60,000, improving the diet of Grenoble families with...
A station in Cambridge last week began to receive transatlantic radio messages bounced off the moon by a huge British radio telescope. The U.S. Air Force Research Center here picked up Morse code messages relayed off the surface of the moon from the British transmitter at Jodrell Bank. Later messages...