Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in New Delhi at week's end, Nehru said that the U.S.S.R.'s atomic discovery may help prevent war. "The more terrible the dangers of war," Nehru explained, "the more the people should see the folly of it and avoid it. But people do not always behave logically, of course...
From the Grand Plateau (12,880 ft), the climber can choose the path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...
...admits Dr. Alvin G. McNish of the National Bureau of Standards, the value for the speed of light may have to be changed officially. The new value suggested by Aslakson is 299,792 kilometers per second, a change of one foot in about four miles...
Like most safety directors, Karsch owes his job to a "regrettable incident." On May 15, 1947, when White Sands was young, a German V-2 swooped down at 3,500 m.p.h. and landed three miles from Alamogordo (pop. 5,000). Alamogordans had been hardened by years of practice-bombing and an atom-bomb explosion. One woman called up the Army to "get that thing out of my backyard...
Safety Screen. All sorts of things can go wrong with a rocket. It rises almost vertically at first, and is put on its course by pre-set gyroscopic instruments. When the instruments do not work just right, the rocket may dive to the ground, fly horizontally, or circle back with blood in its eye toward the launching platform. At least six of White Sands's rockets have circled. One missed the control blockhouse by only about 600 feet...