Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems. Since 1952 more than 100 Hindi experts have translated 31,000 English scientific terms into Hindi (they plan to translate 300,000 by 1960). But many terms, such as units of weights and measures, have merely been transliterated. And in the field of chemistry the translaters have hit a major snag. When the Hindi vocabulary was first initiated, Indians knew only seven of the 90-odd stable elements known today. As a result, an Indian chemist talking Hindi sounds like a man switching continually' from English to Hindi in the same sentence. Students entering .engineering schools with little...
Weldy began to argue again with Har rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...
FIRST BIG WELL in Central America has been brought in by California's Union Oil Co. in Costa Rica. After several dry wells on 3,500,000-acre concession near Panamanian border, Union hit 1,000 bbls.-per-day well at 4,950 ft. Union considers find "of tremendous importance," will next start drilling on 350,000-acre concession in Panama...
...William March's original novel, and in the Broadway hit adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson, this Gothic fable had a certain ghoulish conviction. While the theory that criminal tendencies can be inherited from criminal parents is ridiculous biology, it makes for bloodcurdling drama. To wipe what she believes is her tainted blood from the earth, the mother tries to kill herself and her daughter. In the novel and the play her suicide was successful, and the story's irony lay in the fact that the lethal child recovered with no one suspecting her crimes. Producer-Director Mervyn...
...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TIME, Sept...