Word: proper
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Thalidomide may have properties in it that divert the usual scheme or flow of messages as in DNA and thusly prevents the overall or complete processing of the incubation of the ovule or the exact and proper creation of the embryo...
Died. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 101, a most proper Bostonian, whose longevity was a measure of his zest for life; in Boston (see THE NATION...
...fact, told to do so in order to eliminate the remote possibility that a stray electronic impulse (or an enemy-sent signal) might fire their retrorockets prematurely. But eventually they must flip that vital switch back on again. Only a signal sent from the ground at the proper instant can bring them safely down...
When a Gemini capsule is about to re-enter the atmosphere, it will be positioned for retrofire by computers on the ground. The pilot will rearm the retrorockets, which will be fired automatically when the proper time comes. During the capsule's long fiery curve through the atmosphere its astronauts will have a slight degree of control. By firing attitude rockets and tilting the capsule, they will be able to give it aerodynamic lift and so control to some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release...
Controlling the Gemini during re-entry and gliding it through the lower atmosphere to a proper landing place are certainly jobs for a man with experience in winged aircraft, but the rest of the flight will call for very different skills. One of the men on board will have to handle a complex computer as rapidly and efficiently as a secretary drumming on a typewriter. He will need the know-how necessary for interpreting the readings of new, esoteric instruments. For this futuristic job, an M.I.T. doctorate may soon be more of a recommendation than many years' experience...