Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongly object to your statement, in "Raising Hake" [March 18], that on the West Coast saumon blanc goes by the "unappetizing" name of hake. It happens that in some American circles a hake is known as a very tasty dish...
They did, and one day last week the Alvin, a 22-ft. submarine equipped with special underwater cameras and a mechanical "claw," brought up film of an object it had spotted at 2,500 ft. Once developed, the film set off jubilation in Madrid and Washington, for the pictures clearly showed the H-bomb, apparently completely intact, partly covered by its own grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip...
...found its highest prestige in this time of great orators: Webster, Clay and Calhoun. These men served so long that, in their perspective, Presidents came and went, but the Senate continued. When Andrew Jackson, an outsider who swept into office with the first genuine popular vote, ventured to object to a Senate action, the body replied stonily: "The President has no right to send a protest to the Senate against any of its proceedings...
...concentric circles and parallel lines become a window through which a viewer sees the scene that was photographed. By moving his head from side to side, he can look through that window at different angles and change the perspective of the three-dimensional view; he can look around an object in the foreground to see what is behind it, just as if he were examining the actual scene...
...finding the quasar with the largest red shift. In December, University of California Astronomer Margaret Burbidge briefly held the record, with an observed red shift for quasar 0106 + 01, indicating that it was racing away from the earth at 81.2% of the speed erf light and was the farthermost object known. In January, however, Schmidt found another quasar (1116+12) with a red shift that is even greater and a correspondingly greater velocity. "I feel a little embarrassed about it," he says. "This thing had to be just 1% above Margaret's." So far, about 90 quasars have been...