Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cosmic rays. The satellite can observe cosmic-ray particles before they hit the atmosphere, which destroys them or changes their energy...
...Micrometeorites. Very small meteoritic particles will not puncture the skin, but impact detectors will report when they hit and will give an idea of their size and speed...
...financed, applies any time a lender sells the agency a mortgage. Last week stockholders, who own 25,820 shares, got a pleasant surprise. Fannie May declared a 17? stock dividend, its first. The $100-par shares, selling on the over-the-counter market at around $55, are expected to hit...
Part of the continuing steel demand came from U.S. railroads, which are expanding as never before to meet new markets. The Association of American Railroads estimated that overall profits for 1955 may hit $915 million for Class I roads, the best year on record. The New York Central, Union Pacific and Santa Fe are all reaping the benefits of new equipment and expanding business along their tracks; Central profits of $52 million were 400% higher than 1954. For the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, increasing dieselization, new maintenance shops, heavier coal and steel shipments added up to the best year...
...trenches, as a subaltern of 19, Lewis himself was blooded-hit in the back "oddly enough by an English shell." During the postwar decade, first as a starveling poet and then as tutor at Magdalen College, he felt something else at his back-the Hound of Heaven. He fled over the shifting ice floes of intellectual fashion: rationalism, realism, idealism, materialism. Still the Hound pursued, and Lewis was finally backed into a corner that became home...