Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collegians do not expect, in a few months, to transform their charges into fervent churchgoers. Their long-range purpose: "To show people that the gospel is concerned with every phase of life-to give them a reason to live...
Shaw is able and willing to pay for his experiment, is plowing back all his salary and some $3,000 more into the orchestra to get the talent and programming that he wants. But how long Conductor Shaw's San Diego phase will last nobody knows; this nervous man in a hurry is allergic to stagnation. Says Shaw: "The ages 45 to 65 are a man's most productive years, and I'm just ten months short of 40-so I haven't any time to lose...
MALENKOV: . The only party boss in Soviet history to lose his job and keep his head. A senior Western ambassador rates him as the "shrewdest, most intelligent and most competent of them all," but his influence seems currently to be in a waning phase...
...says Dr. Max Renner of the University of Munich, has a built-in time sense that ticks away, independent of all "environmental factors." To prove his point, Dr. Renner completed this week the first phase of an elaborate experiment in bee psychology...
Right Answer. To check the theory, Miller got help from Astronomer Walter Baade of Mt. Wilson and Palomar, who computed the phase and position of the moon at the time when the supernova could first have been seen in Arizona. The answer came out right. The moon was a crescent, as drawn. In northern Arizona it would have risen shortly before dawn on July 5th, and the supernova would have been close to it. The sight must have been striking; the supernova was probably the brightest object, other than the sun, ever to be seen by historic...