Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Navy last week broke the world balloon-altitude record long held by the Army,* but it did not do the job with unruffled dignity. Its helium-filled balloon, made of plastic film, and 128 ft. in diameter, rose without trouble from the same bowl-like depression near Rapid City...
The broadcast begins with a weather announcement, and then shifts to the George Shearing quartet in New York (Welles' used Brazil and Stardust). Then came the now immortal series of special bulletins telling of a strange explosions on Mars, then of odd masses crashing in New Jersey, and finally the...
Hell in the Cellar. The word is Entmythologisieren, translated into English as "demythologization." This, says Bultmann, is what the New Testament needs if it is to mean anything real to laymen of today. For to modern man, he argues, the world of the Gospels seems as different from our world...
Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper at the University of Chicago, working at the McDonald Observatory, Texas, reported another color change on Mars. Its dark areas, which are generally supposed to be some sort of vegetation, are unusually drab this year. They are neutral grey, instead of the dull green that he...
The dust will presumably settle before Mars gets too far away for good observation. For another month at least its distance will not increase enough to make any appreciable difference. The astronomers, however, cannot report all their findings immediately. They will need much time for study and coming to conclusions...