Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When enlightenment first came to Gautama Buddha, 2,400 years ago, he was sitting under a Bo tree. Buddha's tree has been an object of reverence, ever since, and its offspring still stands amid ancient ruins at Anuradhapura, Ceylon, where it was brought in 246 B.C. Among Buddha's 150,000,000 followers word was spreading last week, however, that the sacred Bo was withering, and the prognosis looked bad. Adoring pilgrims knew only one thing to do: as generations of them had done before, they poured gallons of milk around its trunk...
...When an object is moving through air at less than Mach I, compression waves speed out ahead of it. They "warn" the air molecules that a moving body is coming, so the molecules have time to rearrange themselves to flow evenly around it. But above Mach I, the moving body (like the raiding Mongols of the Middle Ages) out-speeds the news of its coming. The air molecules, taken by surprise, are pushed aside sharply...
Money is neither an object nor an obstacle at Landhaven. Those who can afford it pay the full $1,650 a year. For others, Millen has not only written off the tuition altogether, but provided clothes, books and pocket money. But every Landhavener must pass a Stanford-Binet test with a "gifted" rating: the average I.Q. for the group entering this fall...
...When I paint," Pablo Picasso once said, "my object is to show what I have found, and not what I am looking for. In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by facts and not by reasons." A new edition of Verve, in U.S. bookstores last week, showed proofs of Picasso's recent finds and loves...
...Florence B., a scallop boat, was scalloping along off the New Jersey coast last week, in 105 feet of water, 50 miles southeast of Ambrose Lightship. Among the scallops the rake dredged up a curious object: a gigantic tooth that would have taken a Paul Bunyan dentist with forceps the size of crossed crowbars to extract. The tooth was 6.5 inches long and Weighed 3.7 pounds. The roots were rust-colored and scaly, but the hard crown was jet black, as if the owner had chewed betel nuts...