Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall in a light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...special assistant for science and technology) as guest speakers, but its main lecturer will be Dr. Harvey E. White, University of California professor of physics. The first semester, "devoted to those aspects of physics necessary to an understanding of atomic and nuclear physics," will deal with kinematics, light, dynamics, electricity, magnetism. The second will emphasize atomic and nuclear physics...
...moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able to pick up radio evidence reflected off the moon that somebody on earth has exploded a nuclear device or launched a powerful missile...
When the moon is not in the sky, the Navy's dish will be at the service of peacetime scientists. By bringing information from as much as 6 billion light years away, it may tell the size and age of the universe. It may tell whether the universe exploded from a center a few billion years ago, or whether it is still being created and continues indefinitely in all directions in both time and space...
...Osaka, son of a merchant who lost his kimono selling rice, Konosuke quit school in the fourth grade to go to work in a bicycle shop. At 17 he saw the electric streetcars come in. concluded the future lay in electricity, got a job with the Osaka Electric Light Co. His lack of education blocked promotion, so he saved and borrowed $98 to open a factory in his home...