Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trim, tidy little Maria Ripinskaya is not quite so certain of herself. She hopes to be a schoolteacher and by 1953 "visualize myself starting literature lessons. The following spring my pupils pass their examinations." But blond, slant-eyed Vladimir Barkov has no doubts whatever concerning the year 1963. By then, believes Vladimir, triumphant Soviet science will have perfected atomic control and powered a voyage to the moon. Out of thousands of applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries...
...price charged for the whole job fail to cover the cost of paint. Most salaries were geared to a monthly cost-of-living index, but the index ran hopelessly far behind prices in the spiraling race to oblivion, and China's housewives well knew that months would pass before present prices were reflected in their husbands' paychecks. Since to keep their workers on the job at all employers had to supply them with food and transportation, many firms collapsed under the crushing overhead...
...tourists in Canada, the Dominion was determined to be the good host. For Courtesy to Tourists Week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce put on its best smile. In Ontario, the Department of Travel and Publicity got down to fundamentals. It bought 1,000 copies of a cookbook to pass out free to tourist camps and small hotels, "to raise the standard of food served as an added attraction to tourists...
Neutrinos are perhaps two-thousandths the mass of an electron, and have no electric charge by which they can be influenced electrically. They pass right through matter as if it weren't there. Physicists have calculated, says Dr. Gamow, that it would take a lead shield 200 million million miles thick to stop speeding neutrinos...
Slicks. The best of them look as well on a library table as Town & Country. Except for its Chevrolet ads, General Motors' slick Friends (1,400,000 a month) could pass as a regular picture magazine. Restyled three years ago by the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) as a luxury magazine, The Lamp, which goes to 255,000 readers, pays up to $2,500 for articles. Chrysler's Overseas Graphic is exported (in English and Spanish) to 20,500 foreigners...