Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Save Two Men. As long as the weather was bad, it made no difference what anyone said; nobody could have reached the climbers in any case. Two days later, however, when the sky cleared, a Piper Cub, filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could...
...scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...
...rocket speeds are good for trips in the solar system, but for interstellar voyages they are hopelessly slow. Conservative space enthusiasts accept the speed of light as the absolute speed limit in the material universe, and they know that even at this ultimate speed a spaceship can reach only nearby stars within a human generation. This seems to put a limit on man's interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time dilation." If a spaceship cruising toward a foreign star approaches the speed of light, its time, by relativity, will slow down. Its clocks will...
...subatomic particles are at rest in relation to the earth, they disintegrate in an average earth time of less than two-millionths of a second. But when they are created by cosmic rays hitting atomic nuclei high in the atmosphere, they seem to have comparative immortality. Many of them reach the earth's surface more than ten miles below, although their short "rest lives" would permit them, even moving at the speed of light itself, to travel about one-third of a mile. The reason they travel so far is that their speed, given them by the cosmic rays...
...Each figure is the percentage of the nation's TV homes within reach of the program that are calculated to be tuned in during an average minute. Lucy's 46.3, for example, suggests that 17,040,000 sets were tuned in for the show of the night...