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Word: marse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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»The science exhibit for children eight to twelve years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

The gods who grant Midas his request are excellent, and make you wish Cole would write a real unpretentious comedy some day. I wonder if Harvard is good for somebody as clever as Cole; it's filled his head up with a set of allusions it will take him ten...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Three Plays | 4/14/1962 | See Source »

Pelvic Polka. Youth's greatest malaise is simple Soviet boredom. Endless bitter jokes damn the drabness of life under Communism. Asks one: "Is there life on Mars?" Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Longing for Truth | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Every so often, a trace of complex organic material discovered in a meteorite leads scientists to a romantic conclusion. Such chemical traces of life, they say, must mean that the meteor came from a place where life once existed. Most plausible spot: Planet No. 5, which some scientists believe revolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No News from Planet No. 5 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Fact is, people have been taking astrology seriously for at least 5,000 years. Stone Age man noticed that the height of the sun's daily passage controlled the seasons and therefore man's food supply. He realized that the moon had an influence on the tides. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doomsday Deferred | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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