Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scientifically, there is a related economy of energy to aerodynamics involved in the saucer; I refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...
...card below (complete with holes) should be familiar to all but the most recent TIME subscribers. It's the renewal card our circulation department sends you to advise you that your subscription to TIME is up for renewal. All of the card's perforations and code numbers refer to you. An explanation of them follows...
...understood that I do not refer to the South Korean army, which has fought with great bravery and effectiveness, but only to the South Korean police and marine units which I have seen in action behind our lines...
...long imprisonment in a literary footnote." It is true that Smart had to wait a long time to receive his proper praise (and appraisal) as a highly original poet. But, after almost two centuries of neglect, Smart has been discovered and rediscovered in the last dozen years. I refer, for example, to the ten pages devoted to him in my Treasury of Great Poems (Simon & Schuster) published...
...understand what had happened, Bradley could, if he would, refer inquirers back to some recent history, to wit, the weeks immediately following World War II. He might have pointed out how the U.S. destroyed and left strewn around the globe billions of dollars worth of arms and equipment. It was too expensive to bring the stuff home; it would not be needed anyhow in the long years of peace which lay ahead. No more would big military forces be needed. In response to demands from home which shook U.S. politicians to their shoes, the victorious U.S. military force had been...