Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been able to make a photographic record of the clouds or their movements...
...established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years ago, and aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer who led the league last year in strike-outs (225), was second in earned-run average (2.88), managed a 14-13 record for a St. Louis team that scored fewest runs in the league. With Lefthanders Johnny Antonelli (16-13 last year) and Mike McCormick (11-8), and slow-balling Righthander Stu Miller (whose 2.47 earned-run average was the league's best last year), the Giants have the best group of pitchers...
...automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...
...fabulous treasure-trove of art hidden behind its 50-ft.-thick walls. But no one was allowed to photograph or even to catalogue it. Then last year a team of scholars and technicians, jointly sponsored by Princeton, Michigan, and Alexandria universities, got permission to make the first complete record of Mount Sinai's treasures. This week TIME publishes an unprecedented sampling of the expedition's finds...
...experts look for another spectacular rise in the next few months. One factor is that the shortage of stock is easing as more and more issues come on sale to sponge up excess funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission reported a record 171 filings in March for issues of $2.2 billion...