Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio voice of U.S. space probe Pioneer V grew painfully feeble last week...
...miles away from the earth. Britain's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank could still hear the signal, but the U.S. station at South Point. Hawaii had to strain its 60-ft. ear. So the time had finally come to shoot the works-by switching on the probe's 150-watt transmitter...
Clues under the Mud. Every year when the weather permitted, Kostrzewski and his assistant Rajewski assembled teams to probe deeper into the mud for the secrets of Biskupin. Damming the site and pumping it dry, the diggers found that the slanting logs were the outer fringe of fortifications; just inside was a second wall made of three rows of log cribs filled with stones and earth, and enclosing a roughly circular area of about six acres. Except for a small open square, the entire area was packed with log houses, built wall to wall in 13 straight rows and almost...
...Charles Percy) Snow is a Geiger-counter Galsworthy. Himself trained in science (chemistry and physics). Novelist Snow set out two decades ago on a vast and ambitious project: a cycle of eleven novels, titled Strangers and Brothers, intended to probe the broad upper middle class that dominates science, education and much of government in the age of the Scientific Revolution. In his own way, Snow is writing about Organization Man. His hero is the 20th century manager, science-minded, a born administrator and as typical of his era (in the words of one British critic) "as tyrants were of Renaissance...
...waters of the Persian Gulf, others perched on a crablike platform and sent a snag-toothed bit boring into the ocean bed. Around the world, hundreds of men labored just as sweatily in 35 other countries - from the pampas of Argentina to the back hills of New Zealand - to probe the earth in an eager quest for the substance that makes the world's wheels go round...