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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note the Army's Jupiter has reached an altitude higher than Sputnik's orbit. Why isn't the last stage of Jupiter's rocket or missile orbiting about in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...blow off only in private. "Those bastards," said one high Air Force officer in private, "can't win in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where they ought to take their case, so they went to the public. They're not going to get away with it. It isn't going to do them any good. It's going to be a real big brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Real Big Brawl | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...coordinating center for all the amateur teams of satellite observers scattered across the country in "Operation Moonwatch," and it carries on all United States work in orbital computations of satellites. And Whipple says that "we sometimes seem to be working slowly;" this isn't the way it has appeared to his overworked staff, who have had little chance to stop and reflect on what they "seem" to be doing during the month-long Sputnik crisis...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Smithsonian Astronomers Keep Hectic Pace | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...office of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute, a secretary replied to a question concerning the unusual bustle of activity in the building. "Yes, isn't it wonderful? Yang and Lee won the Nobel Prize. Haven't you seen the front page picture in the Herald Trib...

Author: By Fredrick W. Byron jr., | Title: The Institute: Frontier of Learning | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Au Secours | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

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