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Word: marse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comet Tanned. After leaving the earth for the second time, the comet bore down on the planet Mars (the Greeks recorded a love affair between the god Mars and the goddess Venus). This encounter settled and domesticated the comet, which accepted a regular orbit. Now, as the planet Venus, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus on the Loose | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

In Manhattan, Astrologer-Numerologist Florence Anne Jensen selected the year's "ten most fascinating horoscopes." Among them: General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("headed for a hectic spring and summer as Mars conjuncts his satellium of planets in Libra"); Ingrid Bergman ("Uranus in wide opposition to her Sun at birth ... causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Specialist's Eye | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Since Mars revolves only a little more slowly than the earth does (its day is about 24½ hours long), a specific spot on its surface cannot be observed on the same night in both Japan and the U.S. By the time night comes in one earthly hemisphere, the Martian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Explosion on Mars | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

But by last week the part of Mars that Saeki had observed was visible from the U.S. Mars Authority Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper of McDonald Observatory, Fort Davis, Texas, took a good look and saw nothing unusual. He thinks Saeki saw a cloud of ice crystals, not uncommon when Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Explosion on Mars | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

The basic idea of The Cannibal, to present German life from the nightmarish viewpoint of a new Führer, is a good one, though Author Hawkes often mars it by long patches that are obscure in meaning and wild in language. Yet for all its fantasy and its irritating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teutonic. Nightmare | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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