Word: orly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Except for physical sciences, headed by Nuclear Physicist Gustav Hertz, almost every Leipzig department has been destroyed academically. Compulsory courses (Marxism, Russian) help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment...
The 37-ft. Martin-made missile lifted into a steep arc, soared "within ten miles" of Explorer VI, 156 miles up. It then continued squarely on course, plunking into the ocean 1,000 miles from the launch spot. The Air Force's argument: an airborne ballistic missile like Bold...
The great birds (wingspan: about 7 ft.) go through such distressingly gooney antics that Navymen long ago dubbed them gooney birds. Among other things, they need large, clear areas to take off and land, and they find airports ideal. The friendly gooney birds lay their big eggs on or near...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the...
To check their findings, Beltsville's men dosed plants with red light at all hours of the night. Fooling plants into believing the nights were longer or shorter than they really were seasonally, the scientists were able to make plants bloom months early or late. They have so efficiently...