Word: lightered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Law School Faculty Kennedy won by a 22-11 margin. With a lighter response, the Divinity and Education Faculties picked the Democrats by 81.3 and 83.3 per cent majorities. Throughout the Faculty, 97 per cent stated that they intend to vote...
...good measure, Tisch is also building two luxury motels on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, a third in Washington, D.C. If his new hotels live up to his standards, they will be lighter, gayer and more modern than most, will not try to ape foreign hotels. "An American waiter in a French-style hotel," says Tisch, "just doesn't look authentic...
...earth's corona, Astrophysicist Shklovsky reasons, is mostly hydrogen which came originally from the earth's oceans. Water vapor works its way up from the lower atmosphere. When it reaches about 60 miles, its molecules are broken into oxygen and hydrogen by solar radiation. The hydrogen, being lighter, tends to rise, and above about 1,000 miles it becomes the main constituent of the atmosphere. Some of its molecules get hot enough and move fast enough to reach escape velocity and leave the earth entirely. Moscow's Professor Shklovsky believes that enough hydrogen has escaped in this...
...blonde, Jerrie demonstrated a point that many scientists have long believed: that women may be better equipped than men for existing in space. Reported Project Mercury's Lovelace: women have lower body mass, need significantly less oxygen and less food, hence may be able to go up in lighter capsules, or exist longer than men on the same supplies. Since women's reproductive organs are internally located, they should be able to tolerate higher radiation levels...
...they wanted in the old days was plenty of wood," recalls Bickel. Ty Cobb swung a 42-oz. bat, and Babe Ruth sometimes used bats weighing 48 oz. But styles have changed, and players now prefer lighter bats that they can swing more quickly. The Cubs' Ernie Banks uses a 31-oz. bat; the Giants' Willie Mays never goes heavier than 33 oz. The shape has changed too. Only White Sox Second Baseman Nellie Fox still uses a thickhandled bat; the rest prefer a slim handle. H. & B. keeps an index of the types...