Word: overlap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of statehood, Alaska's two Senate seats are called Term A and Term B. In order to provide the groundwork for the constitutionally required overlap of senatorial terms, one has a tenure of four years, the other of six, but the Senate will decree which is which only after the Nov. 25 election. Bartlett filed for Term...
...optimistic was Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard. Gold pointed out that the ring-shaped meteor craters on the moon can be given comparative ages by the way they overlap, and that the walls of the oldest ones are generally low. This means, said Gold, that during the 4 billion years or so of the moon's life, its exposed rock has been slowly turned into dust by bombardment of rays and particles from the sun and space. The dust, kept stirred up by the same agents that formed it, has flowed like a slow liquid into the moon...
Council Not to Overlap...
...Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...
Because the program will involve an overlap between the various departments which border on mathematics, the Standing Committee will be inter-departmental. Dean Broks guessed that the membership would not be very different from the membership of the Committee on Applied Mathematics and Statistics, which represents the departments of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Chemistry, and Statistics...