Word: hunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writing in the journal Science, Neel and Harris explain the simple procedure that they used to test their hunch. At a local nursery, they bought eight matching pairs of young sweetgum trees. They potted the sweet gums in four-gallon cans in their greenhouse and stopped in every morning to give one member of each pair a brisk 30-second shaking. After 27 days of this routine, the shaken trees had grown only one-fifth as much as those left in peace, had put out fewer lateral branches and developed stouter, tougher trunks. Trees, conclude the authors, have evolved...
...doctor had been sent to examine him. In that case, asked a reporter, why could not Kissinger be lodged in an air-conditioned room in Islamabad? The reply: Kissinger did not want to embarrass anyone in the capital by his illness. At that point, reporters grew skeptical, but their hunch was that Kissinger had gone to see some East Pakistan officials...
Indirect Evidence. To substantiate his hunch that this is what happens on Jupiter, Lieut. Colonel Streett (a mechanical-engineer-turned-physicist who heads West Point's new science research laboratory) calculated the effects of high pressures on hydrogen and helium, the basic gases in the Jovian atmosphere. He deduced that if such a combination were subjected to several hundred thousand times earthly atmospheric pressure (14.7 Ibs. per sq. in. at sea level), the hydrogen would begin to solidify first, its density becoming less than that of the remaining gaseous mixture of hydrogen and helium. Physicist Ringermacher, then a Private...
...often said that the young either ignore elections or vote the same way as their parents. My hunch is that this axiom is no longer good, at least among collegians. Almost every student I talked to this spring said that he and his friends were more liberal than their parents, and they intended to vote in 1972 if at all possible. The sluggish progress of states toward ratifying the constitutional amendment giving 18-year-olds the vote, coupled with disputed residency rules, may keep many from voting in near-campus elections. Still, hundreds are interviewing candidates and canvassing local voters...
...less baffling than Peking's, but only slightly. This year TIME made its own type of best actor nomination with the cover story on George C. Scott (March 22). Though Scott had scorned the Oscar, the Academy in the end also found him irresistible. Following another hunch, the editors recently sent Contributing Editor Mark Goodman to England for an interview with Glenda Jackson; she turned out to be the dark-horse winner in the best actress category. "It was good to see a magnetic screen talent rewarded," he said. "Frankly, I was just as surprised as everybody else...