Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nudge the final stage into capture by the moon's gravitational field, and the Russians have not mentioned any such item. Next degree of success would be to pass around the moon and return to earth. If the Russians were trying to do this, they did not know their own strength. When Lunik passed the moon, it was going so fast (5,500 m.p.h.) that the moon's feeble gravitation could not pull it back...
...Martha Duff, a fragment of another essay might be ample justification for a life spent in the jungle: "This is my school . . . Here some time ago I came ... I didn't know a thing then . . . Now, already, I know several things...
Ralph Cordiner has thrown all of G.E.'s energy and know-how into the atomic future. The company has $1.5 billion in Government contracts and more than $100 million in private contracts, has committed more men (14,000) to atomics, and spent more of its own money ($20 million) to build research facilities, than any other company. So far it has not made a dime on commercial business, but its hopes for the future are bright...
...Emerson Radio & Phonograph let its stockholders know that profits for 1958 should be ten times greater than the puny $138,431 it netted...
...reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what it's all about by Page 12, it is perfectly fair to say that the book is 'slow getting started...