Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dr. Pierre Auger, who discovered these showers at his Paris laboratory in 1938, gave a new theory of their origin to the American Physical Society, meeting at the University of Chicago. They do not come from outer space as electrons: that would require a million billion electron volts. More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound...
Nearing Nehring. Bizerte can hold all the fleets of Europe. Jetties protect its outer harbor, from which a narrow canal leads into Sebra Bay. Farther inland is the great 30-mile expanse of Bizerte Lake. The surrounding hills bristle with fortifications. In the area are seaplane bases, airdromes...
...Covent Garden would be made a national music and drama center and banished to the outer ring road. No structures would be rebuilt around St. Paul's Cathedral...
...family group rounding the corner. He had not been in PBH for several months--not since the spring, in fact,--and refused to believe that the needy came directly to the red brick beehive for aid. An immediate investigation seemed in order. As he struggled with the heavy green outer doors, he muttered something about "why don't they oil these things," and staggered on through...
...second front, later conferences in London, Washington and Moscow, Joseph Stalin's demand for the fulfilment of Allied obligations "fully and on time"?none of these factors has materially altered the plan or the basic elements which originally determined its shape and timing, The attack on the outer Aleutians, the Battle of Midway and other events since last December have caused shifts in detail, not in the overall scope and direction of the plan...