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Word: repelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page paper, Lyttleton and Bondi suggest that it is the protons that have the bigger charges. In a "smoothed-out" universe of newly created hydrogen, the atoms will all be slightly positive, and they will repel one another by electrostatic force, as all objects do when they have the same kind of electric charge. Thus the smoothed-out universe of hydrogen must expand as fast as it is created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unbalanced Universe | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Columnist JOSEPH ALSOP : IT is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 results in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obviously likely to repel the maximum number of votes. Wherever the Democrats committed comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...poles. He theorizes that it consists of protons, trapped by the earth's magnetic field, which spiral around lines of magnetic force at right angles. Thus a manned vehicle (launched near the poles) might carry a lightweight shielding ring to avoid proton concentrations, or use magnetic screening to repel them. Also possible: a satellite designed to "sweep out" a channel by absorbing protons, allowing a manned vehicle to follow safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Off into Space | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...them? And would the Soviet government, which is itself not subject to moral and religious restraints, thereby gain a special freedom of action and initiative as regards such weapons? And does the Soviet Union not want nuclear weapons to be refined into effective defensive weapons which could repel an aggressive attack by those who control the most manpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Hard Line (Contd.) | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Nasser now wants the U.N. to do for him what he cannot do for himself: repel invaders, reopen the canal. But he has yet to indicate that he feels any obligation to the rest of the world. At the same time he complains that the U.S. is trying to isolate him. The isolation, which may increase, is his own doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Mother Goose & Propaganda | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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