Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion electrons around its race track 10,000 times in 1/120th of a second and then shoots them out into the experimental hall with an energy of 6 billion electron volts, the highest electron energy yet achieved. In so doing it creates a situation permitting scientists to peer more deeply into the nature of our physical universe, into the wonder world of particles and anti-particles, than have any of their predecessors during the whole history of mankind. It is instructive to recall that the first primitive misnamed "atom-smasher" was built in 1928 and that the powerful accelerators...
...seat in the House of Lords, the largely ceremonial upper house that has been called "the last infirmary of noble minds." Instead, Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside while the defeated Tory candidate occupied his seat in Commons...
Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, when radio telescopes peer deep into space, they also look into the far-distant past. Galaxies 7 billion light-years away are studied on earth just as they were 7 billion years ago, before the earth was born. Little is known thus far about these ancient galaxies that have been fossilized by time and distance. Perhaps when more is known, man will get some idea of what the young universe was like and when it was born. Or, perhaps, when the radio astronomers have improved their skill, they will prove...
...indeed, for being a Cabot and a Lowell in Boston was not a feeling, but a state of being. Yet Godfrey Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
From his home in the bleak Welsh town of Penrhyndeudraeth, the philosopher-peer sent Moscow a plea for moderation that prompted Khrushchev's first reaction to the U.S. Cuban blockade, hinting that a summit might be useful. Later, when Moscow backed down. Russell had extravagant praise for Khrushchev's "sanity and magnanimity." Kennedy's first billet-doux from Bertie labeled the blockade "a threat to human survival," and drew a curt snub. Undismayed, the peacemaker of Penrhyndeudraeth churned out more letters...